# On Political Independents. Independents report in!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-political-independents-independents-report-in/503698>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 21, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-political-independents-independents-report-in/503698 "2009-07-21T01:12:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-political-independents-independents-report-in/503698/21 "2009-07-22T14:50:21Z")

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Wow, a thread for people like me. I’m independent, or around here, "no party. I lean way left in most social issues like women’s rights and gun rights and general social policies…except I lean somewhat right when it comes to immigration. I lean more conservative in business and economics. And when it gets down to it I don’t believe that any party represents my interests. Honestly they don’t even deserve the time of day.

All that being said, there hasn’t been a Republican candidate I would willingly vote for in my lifetime.

And we have closed primaries in my State and I still don’t want all of the spam and phone calls my SO got during the election - he was registered as a true “independent” which is its own party here too I believe.

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