With seven months before the general election, the percentage of unaffiliated voters in Kansas is rising, continuing a slow 10-year trend.
A review of voter registration numbers at the Kansas Secretary of State's Office shows independents are currently 28 percent of the electorate. That is up from 26 percent in 2000.
The increase comes with a corresponding dip in the percentage of voters registering as Republicans. From 2000 to 2010, GOP voters went from 46 percent to 44 percent of the total.
Democrats, whose raw numbers have increased by 19,000, have seen their share of the registered voters stay the same.
http://cjonline.com/news/state/2010-04-07/gop_registered_voter_share_dips