To hear potential 2020 candidate Howard Schultz tell it, he’s embracing the political will of the majority of Americans. Most Americans are in the center, he said in a speech Wednesday, right where he claims to be.
That’s not really true, at least in the sense of partisan identity. While the largest political group in the country is self-described independents, poll after poll shows that most of those independents end up mostly aligning with one party or the other.