Who are the swing voters? They’re not just independents.

By artappraiser on Sun, 08/26/2012 - 3:06am |

By Scott Clement, Washington Post, August 23, 2012

[....] A Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds independents are among the most likely to say they are still trying to pick a candidate — no surprise here — but so are cross-pressured partisans who are out of step with their own party on key issues.

Overall, the survey found 20 percent of Americans either cannot choose between Obama and Romney or say there’s a good chance they will change their mind by Election Day. But the survey also found an extraordinary range of swing voters across the 13 different groups of partisans and independents — as little as 5 percent in one group and as much as 58 percent in another [....]

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