A recent NBC poll confirms that the partisan political environment is, in fact, taking a toll on the two major parties, with voter registration revealing that self-identified independents are the fastest growing voting bloc in America.
NBC commentators coin it ?the rise of an ?independents? era,? reporting that in 2014 the number of people self-identifying as independent was at 39 percent, passing that of Democrats (32 percent) and Republicans (23 percent).
As of June 2015, the number of self-identifying independents has grown to 45 percent ? just 2 points shy of the number of Democrats and Republicans COMBINED.
?The largest political party in the United States in no longer a party at all,? NBC commentator Chuck Todd reports.
Continued Poll: Independents Will Soon Outnumber Republicans and Democrats Combined - Ben Swann's Truth In Media