The untappable floating voters of India

In our multi-party democracy, floating voters maybe categorised into many groups. Some voters are certainly independent, while some are soft-hearted supporters who change their support quite often

In the backdrop of the 2012 the US presidential election, Linda Killian documented the characteristics and importance of floating voters in her book ‘The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents’. In fact, Ms Killian spotted four distinct demographic groups of Swing voters in the US:
 

• The NPR Republicans, also known as Rockefeller Republicans, due to their political philosophy close to Nelson Rockefeller, a liberal Republican. They are traditional, well-educated, socially moderate and fiscally conservative Republicans who became independents because of a growing disaffection with their natural party home. Many of them voted for Barack Obama, for example.
•  America First Democrats,