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Survey methodology is described in detail here - https://www.prri.org/research/challenges-to-democracy-the-2024-election-in-focus-findings-from-the-2024-american-values-survey/#page-section-12 (archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/FtPGJ)
Jesus Christ. The methodology actually sounds good. This is... So very, very troubling for our nation.
We've been a deeply racist and violent country for longer than we've been a country. Built on genocide and slavery. We didn't properly address our failures when we had the chance (Civil War should have ended with a new constitution and drastically different political structure to keep militant bigots from gaining power) and now we have this.
Almost 27% identify as independent?
Ive never seen any voting poll that even comes close to that. Majority in the survey are white, 50+, evangelical/mainline christian midwestern/southerners. That demographic doesn't help skew to 27% independent to me. The study posted source and methodology though so I don't know what to say.
Anecdotal, but my father, a white 50+ Christian Midwestern man, has made it very clear he's voting for Trump a third time. He's Republican in every way except on paper, because he's registered independent and identifies as such. So there's that
Edit, Google turns up this as the first result. In fact, every poll and article I found at a cursory gland supported that. Where are you getting your information that most voters aren't independent?
Yeah, OP is forgetting about all those capital-C Conservatives that won't register Republican because the Republicans are too moderate and those that left the party specifically so they can disavow this type of rhetoric but still vote straight (R).
There are a ton of independents that are "inverse RINOs" meaning they are Republicans in everything but name.