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Candidates and their consultants keep making the same mistake. They assume that all independents are bundled neatly together ideologically between Republicans and Democrats.

We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia.

I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.

I think it's difficult for members of Congress to be as independent as they need to be in their voting.

I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.