How Independents Could Sway Primaries in Mass., N.H., and R.I.

How Independents Could Sway Primaries in Mass., N.H., and R.I.

The last primaries of 2014 are being held Tuesday–and independent voters could decide some major contests in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Independent or unaffiliated voters are the largest group in New England: In Massachusetts, 53% of voters are registered independents; in Rhode Island, 51% are; and in New Hampshire 43% of voters are independents–about the national average. In Rhode Island, almost 60% of the voters enrolling this year chose not to register with a party, the Providence Journal reported. Those figures should alarm Republicans and Democrats.
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