Do politics determine whom we date?

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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🗓️ 27 June 2012

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Studies have found that couples are more likely to share political views than personality traits, and people are more willing to share their weight than political affiliations online. Are political views a romantic deal-breaker? Tune in to find out.

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1:37.6	Welcome to Stuff Mom Never Told You from HouseOfWorks.com.
1:46.5	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Kristen and I'm Caroline and today we're talking about
1:51.6	politics and romance. Not just because the 2012 presidential election is well underway,
1:59.5	but because a few months ago, a listener wrote in asking that very question of whether or not
2:06.5	someone's political views are generally a romantic deal breaker. So before I started researching
2:13.9	anything at all, I decided to kind of take easier route. Go to Facebook and ask listeners whether or
2:21.6	not politics determines who you date and whether or not it's ever been a deal breaker. And I got to
2:28.4	say overwhelmingly listeners, you said yes. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. A bunch of these people are
2:37.7	pointing out that it doesn't matter if you're left or right or centric or whatever, as long as you
2:42.6	have the basic core beliefs kind of in agreement. For instance, Jennifer says I think it really makes
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