How your voting habits can impact your love life

[Craig Nigrelli]

AS POLITICS SEEM TO BECOME MORE POLARIZING… THEY’RE BECOMING MORE INTERTWINED WITH EVERYDAY LIFE – EVEN YOUR LOVE LIFE.

THERE ARE SO MANY DATING APPS OUT THERE TO HELP YOU MEET YOUR PERFECT MATCH – SOMEONE WHO HAS THE SAME HOBBIES AND INTERESTS AS YOU… MAYBE YOU HAVE THE SAME FAVORITE BAND OR MOVIE OR – POLITICIAN?

YEP.

A RECENT SURVEY FOUND 44 PERCENT OF ALL SINGLE VOTERS UNDER THE AGE OF 36 ARE ON DATING APPS…

BUT 38 PERCENT OF THEM SAID THEY MIGHT NOT VOTE IN THE 20-24 ELECTION.

MEANWHILE, A SEPARATE SURVEY FOUND NEARLY HALF OF DATERS ARE OPEN TO DISCUSSING POLITICS ON THEIR FIRST FEW DATES…

AND MORE THAN HALF SAID THEY’D BE WILLING TO GO ON A DATE TO THE VOTING POLLS…

WITH 84 PERCENT SAYING VOTING IS A BIG TURN ON FOR THEM.

AND WITH THE 20-24 ELECTION LOOMING IN LESS THAN THREE WEEKS NOW…

SOME DATING APPS ARE PUTTING POLITICS FRONT AND CENTER. 

TINDER HAS LAUNCHED WHAT IT CALLS ITS “TAKE ACTION CENTER” – WHICH LETS USERS ADD PROFILE STICKERS SHOWING WHETHER THEY PLAN TO VOTE AND THE ISSUES IMPORTANT TO THEM.

O-K CUPID HAS SOMETHING SIMILAR – ALLOWING USERS TO TAKE A STANCE ON HOT TOPICS LIKE ABORTION WITH AN “I’M PRO-CHOICE” BADGE USERS WHO WANT TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT OF ABORTION ACCESS CAN ADD TO THEIR PROFILE.

MEANWHILE – CONSERVATIVE DATING APP “THE RIGHT STUFF” FEATURES POLITICAL PROMPTS SUCH AS “FAVORITE LIBERAL LIE,” AND “JANUARY 6-TH WAS…” WHICH ALLOWS USERS TO FILL IN THE BLANK.

THIS COMES AS ANOTHER RECENT POLL FOUND PEOPLE’S POLITICAL BELIEFS… ARE LIKELY TO IMPACT THEIR DATES.

IN A SURVEY OF MORE THAN A THOUSAND PEOPLE BETWEEN 18 AND 34 YEARS OLD…

43 PERCENT OF THEM SAID THEY’D HAVE A MORE NEGATIVE VIEW OF THEIR DATE IF THEY SUPPORTED FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP…

WHILE ONLY 19 PERCENT SAID THE SAME ABOUT SUPPORTERS OF VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS.

MORE THAN A QUARTER OF THOSE SURVEYED SAID THEY WOULD HAVE A NEGATIVE VIEW OF A DATE WHO DIDN’T VOTE AT ALL.