Liberal Online Daters Less Willing to Fall in Love With Conservatives
In an OkCupid survey, a quarter of respondents who are “looking for love” now say that having similar political beliefs is more important in making a good match than physical compatibility.
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Donald Trump may be the only candidate for president who has a dating site especially for his supporters, but a new study shows that in 2016, politics is playing an increasingly important role in many Americans' search for a mate.
In a survey of users of the dating site OkCupid, 25.5 percent of respondents who are “looking for love” now say that having similar political beliefs is more important in making a good match than physical chemistry, up from less than 17 percent back in 2012. Liberals led political groups, with 40 percent of them looking for fellow partisans—a nearly 16-point increase in four years—compared to 29 percent for conservatives.