Colorado: What bandwagon is he talking about exactly?

Al Knight, a former member of the editorial staff and current columnist for the Denver Post, dashed off a facinating psychological portrait called "Independent voters don't help" He says:

Independent voters make up about a third of the total, and a huge amount of campaign cash is spent on television ads wooing them. It's true that all those nasty ads seem to be aimed not at the voters who have a party affiliation, but rather at the people who don't give a fig about partisan politics, people who most often haughtily claim to "vote for the person, not the party."

This piece packs a real punch with material from "a Stanford University researcher", a reference to Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, and lots of phrases like "less informed and more easily manipulated", "fashionable trends", "whether to hop aboard the bandwagon or not", "superior to those who belong to a political party"....

Al, lighten up - it's only a mid-term election....