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Ideology and hidden partisanship

What does the data tell us about pseudo-independents?

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Carl Beijer
Jun 09, 2023
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Pseudo-independents — Americans who identify as independent, but who have voting behavior of ordinary partisans — are one of the largest voting cohorts in the country. Over the past year, in fact, pseudo-independents became a larger group than self-identified Democrats or Republicans. But what else can we say about them, since they are by definition not…

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