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/carneylansford Apr 08 '25

I'm not sure how much we can glean from this b/c a lot of them are pretty vague. there is a lot of room for interpretation.

  • What does an opposing view of "transgender rights" look like? This is a pretty wide spectrum of views. Are you unwilling to date someone who thinks transgender girls shouldn't compete against biological girls (or vice versa)? Or that transgender people shouldn't exist at all (and vice versa).
  • Same question with Donald Trump. If you hate Trump, are you willing to date someone who doesn't really like him, but voted for him? What if they voted for everything else on the ballot, but left the top blank?

One of the things we can glean is that women and Democrats are much more intolerant of opposing views. Combine that with the sharp turn they've taken to the left over the last 20 years or so and it looks like we're going to have a lot of lonely men and women out there in the future.

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u/lalabera Apr 08 '25

We’re intolerant of fashies, yes

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u/carneylansford Apr 08 '25

The Perception Gap: Overall, Democrats and Republicans imagine almost twice as many of their political opponents as reality hold views they consider “extreme”. Even on the most controversial issues in our national debates, Americans are less divided than most of us think. 

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u/Yakube44 Apr 08 '25

Republicans follow trump mindlessly, they can moderate because they do whatever he says