Gen X

Independent Pollster - Gen X [born 1965-1980] is the dominant generation among Independents at 36% — more than a third of the entire sample. More than three in five Independents are 45 or older. Gen X has lived through five presidents across three decades of varying cultural, political, and economic dysfunction. Their Independent tendency is the accumulation of a generation that entered the political system only to watch it repeatedly fail to deliver, resulting in a moving away from both parties.