HuffPost/Pollster party affiliation chart: Dems: 36% Indies: 31% Repubs: 28%

[DCBob]

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/party-identification/edit#!maxdate=2016-05-14

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This is nice trend in the right direction!

[pmorlan1]

1. Not so fast

A lot of the new Democrats in 2015 and 2016 are Independents who switched over to our Party to vote for Bernie. You know the ones you guys have been trying to run off.

[DCBob]

3. We certainly do not want to run any new Dems out of the party. That would be stupid.

Any Independent that has joined the party is part of the team.

[pmorlan1]

4. You evidently

haven't seen all the posts I've seen on this subject. I agree it would be really stupid.

[DCBob]

5. If you are referring to the issue of Independents voting in Dem primaries..

that is a valid issue. I think its makes sense that Democrats should have a bigger say in who their nominee is. But if an Independent joins the party then that's a different matter.. they certainly are welcome.

[BootinUp]

2. We're number 1! nt

[VOX]

6. Nice! More people should see this... n/t

[Vote2016]

7. So we're agreed no one wins without the support of independents, right?