Online Matchmakers Give Dating a Partisan Tilt

By NOAH SHACHTMAN

Published: July 22, 2004


Ms. Taber, a 20-year-old part-time student from West Palm Beach, Fla., looked for potential partners at Internet dating sites for nearly three years. But the services kept coughing up conservatives. That was not going to work for a young woman who has been to her share of teach-ins, and caught "Fahrenheit 9/11" on opening weekend.

So, like tens of thousands of others, Ms. Taber turned to an online personals site that caters to a specific political point of view. Now, after trading messages at loveinwar.com for a few weeks, Ms. Taber is going on her second date - with a nice young liberal from Pembroke Pines, about an hour away.

Since it began, the Internet has enabled groups to gather around common interests. So it was only a matter of time before the great divide between red states and blue states made its way into online romance.

Most of the sites have popped up just in the last few months. And most of them trumpet a party affiliation from their home page. Love in War is a bit more subtle. Each personal comes with a mood meter, with the scale ranging from "Dean Angry" to "Clinton Mellow." And when Love in War members state their political beliefs (and they often do), they tend to echo the words of "LibGraphicDesigner," from Akron, Ohio: "Wake Me When Bush Inc. Is Gone."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/22/technology/circuits/22date.html

Finding liberal dates on Boston College's campus is not really..a good place.

It would help in fund raising for the site as well as helping people get together.

bring it on!