At that age you’ve had more then enough time to form an educated opinion. He choose to be an enlightened centralist.
I’m rather left (especially for the USA), but I wasn’t always that way. I was raised very conservative. My statistics wouldn’t be very different from this gentleman, and I also call myself an independent because I don’t care to be tied to a political party like some kind of sports team.
Yet you would assume I would have garbage opinions without knowing anything about me simply by hearing my voting history and party affiliation.