Tiffany Bond  🦞 🇺🇸Verified account

Political parties courting independent voters should refrain from defining what their vote “really means”, otherwise you are making it clear from the start that you don’t actually value their voice.

I have a sneaking feeling 2018 may be the year moderates and independents rebel, putting reasonable grown ups that aren't far *anything* in office. #mepolitics

Independents aren’t independent. Nearly all consistently vote with one party.

And leave it to @ASFried to prove my point.

If I average my decades of voting, I vote an evenish split between the two parties, with some independents tossed in. I don't think I have ever voted D for president, either R or I. I match the skills/issues to the scope of the position. If I like no one, I write in. #mepolitics

Who did you vote for in 2016?

I wrote in.

I wrote in Kasich but would’ve voted for Biden if he had run and got the nomination. I vote for the person, not the party.