Cafferty question: Why do married people tend to vote Republican

[karlrschneider]

and never-married people lean Democratic?"

He says this premise is valid and it may be but I've never heard it before...and if it's true I
don't have the first clue. What think you guys?

[leftofthedial]

1. brain damage

[karlrschneider]

4. But is that a cause ... or a result

of marriage?


:evilgrin:

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

2. Single

True in my case.

He should do a poll on whether MORONS with IQ's below 100, and how many are repubs.

[nam78_two]

3. more white-picket fence style thinking?

:shrug:

[babylonsister]

5. On a day like today, that's the question Cafferty asks?

:wtf:

And for the record, I'm married and we're both Dems. Go figure.

[wavesofeuphoria]

6. We've been married for 19 years

neither of us has ever voted Republican .. none of our married friends have either ..

Sounds like a really stupid conjecture to me .. not to mention .. rather silly given all the other crap going on this week/month/year

[niyad]

7. it certainlys isn't true amoung my friends.

[cynatnite]

8. I've never heard it before either...

I have no idea what to make of it.

[Bonhomme Richard]

9. I guess single people don't like being told what to do. Married....

Well....We just get used to it.

[KittyWampus]

10. Miserable marriages breeds discontent that people take out on others

by voting GOP?

If i'm going to miserable stuck in this crappy marriage, then EVERYONE ELSE SHOULD SUFFER.

[karlrschneider]

14. But they don't seem to want the gay folks to suffer!

:D

(I know yer kiddin')

[StellaBlue]

11. the usual reasons

married people are more likely to be "average" as opposed to "radical" in that they are doing what they are "supposed" to do by marrying and moving to the suburbs

married people obviously see the value in entering into what has always been until the last two hundred years or so an economic contract to increase their wealth, which is, in essence, capitalistic

I realize that not all married people are evil, Republican-voting capitalist pigs... I'm just sayin'... they are MORE LIKELY to be because of their interests (financially)

;)

[cureautismnow]

12. I don't buy it.

Only WEALTHY, married people or ignorant poor, married people vote GOP.

[SammyWinstonJack]

28. !

:spray:

[redqueen]

36. Exactly. n/t

[uppityperson]

13. Who says they do? Based on what information?

Sounds like a push-poll. Thanks.

[karlrschneider]

19. He didn't say where the notion came from. It's possible he's just

looking for some clever responses. I'll try to catch some of the emails when he reads them if I can
but I might have to run over to Tulsa in a little while.

[uppityperson]

31. Thanks karlsch.

first I need to know what he is basing this on, what numbers, then correlation (if proven) still does not mean causation. Now, back to giving the president dicatorialy power vote.

[Sammy Pepys]

15. I think "settling down"...

...tends to make people a bit more conservative. Not everyone, obviously, but a significant amount.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

16. Hmmm. Maybe Cause Married People Simply Don't Give A Shit As Much As They

used to. Lord knows in order to be a republican you really can't give a shit or care about anything. So maybe single people, still having hopes, dreams and energy, simply care about the world and its inhabitants more and therefore lean more democratic LOL

[Vinca]

17. My guess there's no mental health funding where those married

people live. You'd have to be out of your mind to vote Republican.

[LSK]

18. way to miss the big issue today Cafferty

:eyes:

[ccarter84]

20. USA Today article from yesterday prompted it

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-09-26-marriage-gap_x.htm

[madokie]

21. my answer was is this factual cause I had never heard it before either.

[Penndems]

22. Mr. Penndems and I are both Democrats

In fact, we met through our local Democratic Party. No validity to Jack's theory whatsoever! ;)

[abluelady]

23. Where Did That Come From

I'm married over 35 years (to the same man!!!) and we both vote Democratic. Almost everyone I know who is married votes Democratic. Can you tell I stay away from Republicans? LOL

[edhopper]

24. Correlation is not causation

What is the statistical split. Since his question is about those who have been and those who NEVER have been married, the inclusion of gays and lesbians, who I assume vote mostly Dem, in the later might be enough to skew the numbers.
Dumb meaningless question.

[Blue_In_AK]

25. Bullshit - I've been married four times

and I've ALWAYS been a Democrat. Two of my husbands were/are Democrats and two were apolitical. I hate these kinds of stupid generalizations.

[AnneD]

26. Because....

they aren't having sex? And the Dem are to busy having sex to vote and thus we find ourselves in out current perdicament. :rofl:
Hubby and I are happily married, we have sex and we vote Dem.:evilgrin: Hubby use to not vote. I told him no vote no sex-we also do a side bet on who the winner will be be. That's even more fun. :smoke:

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. Married, a life long Democrat. Same with my parents.

:shrug:

[StatGirl]

29. It's probably a spurious relationship

Being married is probably correlated with:

Being middle-aged

Being richer (higher household income)

Belonging to a church/religion (less likely to just "live in sin")

Living in the suburbs or in rural areas

All of these are known to be risk factors for voting Republican.

(Another married middle-aged suburban non-religious liberal Democrat here)

[KansDem]

30. Not wanting to sound sexist, but I think its the "kept woman" syndrome

I know a couple of couples: she's a "stay at home housewife/mom" and he's the "breadwinner." I've read reports that men tend to vote Republican. So he comes home in the evening and bitches and moans about the Dems, government, unions, the Japanese and the Germans, and she says "Yes, Dear..." Then when election time rolls around, he votes Repub because he's "wise in the ways of the world," and she votes Repub because her husband does...

Both single and married women that I know who work tend to vote Dem. I think it has to do with getting out in the world and observing the human condition for yourself...

[Tikki]

32. This is my experience with this....

The people I know who married relatively young and have stayed married tend to
vote for Democrats.

Men who are on their second+ marriages seem to vote republican...taking their
new (never having been married before) wives with them.

Women who marry +times seem to vote for their best interest
often splitting the vote with their new husband.

Tikki

[boolean]

33. Two words: GAY MARRIAGE

Married people tend to think that their union is special and shouldn't be redefined. Let's not forget that the majority is still against gay marriage, and the Repukes play that card all the time.

[CBGLuthier]

34. How can a guy be so smart one day

and so stupid the next?

married 21 years. Never voted republican in my life.

[GreenPartyVoter]

35. I'm married and rarely vote Repub

[Jackpine Radical]

37. BULLSHIT, People!!

The original USA Today article doesn't even establish that it's true.

"House districts held by Republicans are full of married people. Democratic districts are stacked with people who have never married. This "marriage gap" could play a role in the Nov. 7 congressional elections."

This observation doesn't even establish that married people are more likely than unmarrieds to be Puggies. Maybe, for example, conservative singles are more likely to live in districts with lots of married people, and it's all the conservative singles, rather than the marrid folks, who cause the district to tend Puggy.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

38. It's probably the other way around. Why do Reps tend to get married?

Republicans tend to be more conformist. I would say that most non-comformists tend to be Dems. A lot of the Dems that I know that are married seem to have found fellow non-comformists.