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There is a difference between voting for one of the two parties (althought there are obviously more parties) and choosing to affiliate yourself with a specific party. In the US, the largest political party is "Independent" [1] with 46% of the population identifying that way.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx

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Interesting, Im not sure why that question was picked though.

You are given choices of “identifying” as Rep/Dem/Ind. Only two of them are real parties.

What does it mean to be independent then? Is it more like undecided?

Im not sure you can call that a political party.

> What does it mean to be independent then? Is it more like undecided?

I'm sure it means different things to different people. For me, it means that I don't follow any party's platform in lockstep. I try to judge each candidate and policy based on merits, not team affiliation and have voted for multiple parties over the years (Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, Green).

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