Reply #26: I call myself an Independent. Ask me anything! [View All]

[Honeycombe8]

I approve of how Obama is handling his job (not that I don't have SOME problems with his performance...like his not being strong enuf on the healthcare reform debate going on).

I voted for Obama (as did most Independents).

BUT....I am guessing that MORE people who were formerly Republicans are now calling themselves Independents, and they didn't vote for Obama in the first place. Indies always leaned right, is what I've heard in years past. But I'm guessing that that % of right leaners increased after the '08 election.

And now that the Dems are in power, I would also guess that some Indies, who leaned left, returned to the Democratic fold. The reason I think that is because I used to identify myself as a Democratic. For years. (We don't register here in TX to a particular party; you are whatever party you say you are.) But in the last few years I started considering myself more as an Independent. Since the '08 election, I've been tempted to start calling myself a Dem. again because I'm so proud of the election of Obama and Obama's performance and all. But I resisted and still call myself an Independent. But I would guess that some others couldn't resist, and returned to the fold.