The unforgiving minute: "A confused and clueless horde"

I think TNR may have arrived a little late to this particular party.

Historian Michael Kazin looks at recent poll numbers and asks:

[W]hat if millions of independents are really just a confused and clueless horde, whose interest in politics veers between the episodic and the non-existent?

"What if," indeed.

Minute's up.