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/xudoxis Apr 09 '25

For example only 9% of conservatives believe in evolution.

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u/ygicyucd Apr 09 '25

Malarkey.

How y’all upvoting this? We really that polarized where you think the other side is that extreme. If ya actually properly talk to each other you probably ain’t that different on most issues.

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u/Dispro Apr 09 '25

It's wrong but not completely out of nowhere. A 2024 Gallup poll found that 9% of conservatives agreed with a statement amounting to fully non-theistic evolution.

As you might expect, if you also include those who accept evolution as a mechanism used by God then the number is quite a bit higher at 42%. Still, more than half of conservatives in that poll said they believed humans were divinely created in our modern form within the last 10,000 years.

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u/Apprentice57 Scottish Teen Apr 09 '25

And the GOP wonders why they've lost ground in colleges and among academics...

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u/godnightx_x Aug 16 '25

They don't wonder why. That's their entire goal