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davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
Mon Oct 17, 2016, 08:05 PM Oct 2016

Poll: Nearly 40% say election has strained relationships between family and friends

Nearly 40 percent of Americans have experienced tension with friends or family over the 2016 presidential election.

Together with SSRS, a survey research firm, ABC News asked voters how often they discuss the presidential election with relatives or friends and whether the subject causes any friction.

Ninety percent of Americans talk about the presidential race often with friends or family, the survey shows.

Of those, 58 percent discuss the election very often and 32 percent somewhat often. Only 4 percent never talk about the presidential election.

Thirty-seven percent of respondents said the 2016 race has caused tension with relatives or friends.

The major-party nominees, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, are two of the most disliked presidential candidates in history. An ABC News/Washington Post released today found that 63 percent of registered voters see Trump unfavorably and 57 percent have an unfavorable view of Clinton — the highest such ratings for major-party candidates in ABC/Washington Post polling dating back 32 years.


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/40-percent-americans-report-tension-family-friends-election/story?id=42830011
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Poll: Nearly 40% say election has strained relationships between family and friends (Original Post) davidn3600 Oct 2016 OP
I'm only concerned about xmas RandySF Oct 2016 #1
Unfortunately, the sexual assault/ groping discussion has brought a lot ecstatic Oct 2016 #2
I'll argue with people about it but it doesn't affect my relationships. PeteSelman Oct 2016 #3
I don't discuss it with the non-believers in my circle of family/friends GOLGO 13 Oct 2016 #4

RandySF

(59,279 posts)
1. I'm only concerned about xmas
Mon Oct 17, 2016, 08:13 PM
Oct 2016

When I have to deal with my cousin's Trump-loving husband. It'll be hard to stop grinning while he fumes.

ecstatic

(32,734 posts)
2. Unfortunately, the sexual assault/ groping discussion has brought a lot
Mon Oct 17, 2016, 08:22 PM
Oct 2016

of tension. While nobody I know supports Trump, it turns out some friends don't think groping is a big deal or have made offensive comments regarding what constitutes sexual assault.

PeteSelman

(1,508 posts)
3. I'll argue with people about it but it doesn't affect my relationships.
Mon Oct 17, 2016, 08:32 PM
Oct 2016

I have family members who are staunch Republicans and we'll argue politics to the point of yelling at each other and all but it doesn't affect our relationship. They still love me, I still love them and we'd all kill or die for each other.

At the end of the day, what some assholes in Washington are doing is never going to come between the close knit relationships we have as a family. Neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump are going to be there for me when I need them. If my sewer pipe breaks they aren't going to have me over to the White House to get a shower. My dad will.

Politics isn't everything.

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