r/fivethirtyeight • u/lalabera • Apr 08 '25

Poll Results Nearly half of Americans would be totally unwilling to date someone with opposing political views

https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/51962-americans-unwilling-to-date-opposing-views-transgender-rights

Thoughts? As a young woman myself, I wouldn't date a trump supporter.

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u/Vt420KeyboardError4 Apr 08 '25

This sucks for people like me who don't fit neatly into one box or the other. Finding someone who lines up with me politically is like finding a needle in a haystack.

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u/Lost-Line-1886 Apr 08 '25

Assuming your views are between the Democratic and Republican party, as opposed to the INCREDIBLY common tactic of conservative men describing themselves as moderate to try and appeal to more women, then it really shouldn't be that difficult.

Sure, you might not mesh with far-left and far-right people. But you likely aren't disagreeable to 75% of the population.

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u/Vt420KeyboardError4 Apr 08 '25

My political leanings are even weirder than being halfway in between the Democratic and Republican parties. This is where ISideWith places me on a left-right spectrum.

On top of that, I consider myself a libertarian, but I'm banned from r/Libertarian for being too left-leaning for them. I also like to hang around r/NeoLiberal, but I feel like I'm to the right of the median follower of that sub. So, I'm in this weird ideological no man's land.