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The Documentary: America's Independent Voters

Voters in Cincinnati

28/06/2016 GMT

America's Independent Voters

BBC World Service - The Documentary, America's Independent Voters

What motivates Ohio's volatile 'independent' voters who are not Democrats or Republicans?

What is motivating Ohio's volatile 'independent' voters who are not Democrats or Republicans?

America is in the middle of its most volatile presidential election season in half a century. The traditional political parties are being shaken to the core by voters who are not necessarily Democrats or Republicans, so called 'independent' voters. So far independents have led to the polarising figure of Donald Trump gaining the Republican nomination and the unlikely figure of Bernie Sanders leading a serious challenge to the Democrats', HIllary Clinton.
What might the independents do next?
 
Michael Goldfarb travels to the key state of Ohio - a state that has voted for every presidential winner over the last 50 years - to meet with independent voters. He explores the anger that is motivating independents this year. He places their views in the deeper historical context of changes in American society - changes that have hit Ohio hard.

(Photo: Voters go to the polls for the Ohio primary at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer March 15, 2016 in Cincinnati. Credit: ohn Sommers II/Getty Images)

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