democrat's 800,000. in what could prove to be an even bigger story here, the independent voters, their registration numbers are way, way up at nearly half a million, 486,000. chris stirewalt is our fox news digital editor and host of fox news live. we are talking about critical swing states that helped barack obama into the presidency of three and a half years ago, and now the democrats seem to be leaving the party in mass numbers, and it seems like most of them are becoming independents. what does it tell us? >> it tells us that a -- we should point out some of those folks are going on to the great ballot box in the sky. [laughter] >> they are -- here is what is important, they are not being replaced. americans think differently politically now than they did 60 years ago. party affiliation is much weaker now. people are much less likely to feel the need to affiliate with