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In reply to the discussion: I just left the Democratic party over NSA spying [View all]zappaman
(20,606 posts)Wrong.
The percentage of California voters registered as independents, also known as "decline to state or "no party preference voters, reached a record high of 21.3% in the June 2012 primary election. This marks an 11-point increase since the 1992 presidential election (10.3%). Over the same period, the percentage of registered voters in each of the major parties has fallen: Republicans from 37% to 30.2% and Democrats from 49.1% to 43.4%. Also, the actual number of independent voters has increased from 3.44 million before the 2008 presidential election to 3.65 million today, while the total number of registered voters has declined somewhat (from 17.3 million in 2009 to 17.15 million today).
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