Record number of American adults identify as political independents
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
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| 0:28.4 | joinerhomes dot com there's a new gallop poll that came out and it is about young americans 45% of u.s adults now |
| 0:37.0 | identify as political independence. |
| 0:40.5 | Two decades ago, it was about a third. |
| 0:43.2 | And now you've got 45% saying, yeah, I'm independent. |
| 0:47.1 | I don't identify with either political party. |
| 0:50.2 | Yeah, this is part of a long-term trend that we've seen taking place in politics, |
| 0:53.9 | where people, it was much more common to be a proud Republican or a proud Democrat. |
| 0:58.9 | And then we saw people shift and they were like, well, I'm more of a conservative, which means I'm, you know, have my core values, but I may not support the Republican Party all the time. |
| 1:08.1 | And then you're seeing people that are just like, no, I think both of these parties are absolute idiots and I'm going to call myself an independent. And this |
| 1:15.5 | kind of tracks. I mean, we saw a lot of polling data that shows, you know, the Republicans don't have |
| 1:20.8 | the greatest approval rating when you ask a general generic nationwide question. And the Democrats |
| 1:26.0 | have an even worse approval rating when you ask a generic general nationwide question. So we've seen that data there for a long time and those numbers trending lower and lower. And so it makes common sense to say, okay, the next logical step is people just publicly saying, I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a Republican. I think both of these groups are idiots. I'm going to, you know, |
| 1:49.3 | consider myself an independent. And we're bumping up on now almost half of the entire country. |
| 1:55.7 | So the trend, it's driven by obvious discontent with the party in power, not just lasting loyalty. And it's more so with Gen Z and millennials. They are the biggest independent group. Over 50% identify as |
| 2:03.7 | independent. Older generations, they remain a little bit more likely to affiliate to a major |
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