Roughly two-thirds of Americans are registered with one of the two major parties.
Do you have a source for that, or is this the same statistic you quoted from wikipedia about “identification”?
I think only half of eligible voters are even registered to vote, but I’d expect almost all registered voters to register in a party. Young people, like LW users, are less likely to be registered.
I honestly don’t remember, but I was probably trying to point toward the Wikipedia stats, in which case I shouldn’t have used “registered”. A quick search for registration percentages turns up this, which cites slightly under 60% registration in the most recent election (it’s been going slowly down over time; was apparently just over 70% in the late Sixties). I haven’t been able to turn up party-specific registration figures; I suspect but cannot prove that you’re underestimating the number of Americans registered as independent.
Do you have a source for that, or is this the same statistic you quoted from wikipedia about “identification”?
I think only half of eligible voters are even registered to vote, but I’d expect almost all registered voters to register in a party. Young people, like LW users, are less likely to be registered.
I honestly don’t remember, but I was probably trying to point toward the Wikipedia stats, in which case I shouldn’t have used “registered”. A quick search for registration percentages turns up this, which cites slightly under 60% registration in the most recent election (it’s been going slowly down over time; was apparently just over 70% in the late Sixties). I haven’t been able to turn up party-specific registration figures; I suspect but cannot prove that you’re underestimating the number of Americans registered as independent.