Is there really such thing as an independent voter nowadays? 

We’ve talked about the fact that it is independent voters who will decide this election, but who are these people?  For the most part, it seems as though our country has gone in two directions: The hyper partisan voters and the apathetic or low-information voters. 

Honestly, how could a self-proclaimed independent voter be on the fence in this election?  Unless they’ve been locked up in solitary confinement, having sex with the Kardashians or living under a rock (pretty much the same thing) for the last three years … Barack Obama has given them ample evidence to support the fact that he has been a miserable failure.  What more could they want?  What is it that would change their minds? 

This is why I may subscribe to the theory that so-called independent voters may actually just be lazy … these are the people who haven’t paid attention for the last three years.  It’s not that their political leanings are moderate; it is that they are simply uninformed and have no desire to alter that status. 

But the problem is, this goes for hyper partisan voters too.  Someone may call themselves a Democrat and say they are voting for Obama, but for many of them this doesn’t make them any more informed than someone who hasn’t yet decided.  They’re going to vote for Obama because he’s a Democrat and, after all, they’ve always voted for Democrats so that is pretty much the end of the story – know what I’m sayin’?  Same for the Right.  Many people will vote for Mitt Romney because they’ve always voted Republican, without even knowing what Mitt Romney stands for. 

Rather than Left, Right and Middle, perhaps we should simply break it down into two groups: Informed and Uninformed.  In that case, I would say that people who are “independent” and currently undecided fall into the uninformed category, because nobody worth two shakes would be willing to give Obama another shot – unless, of course, they’re voting for access to somebody else’s money.