The vast majority of Biden and Trump supporters can agree on at least one thing: having sex on the first date.
A new survey of nearly 1,000 Americans found that 65% of Trump supporters expect sex on the first date, while 58% of Biden supporters want rough sex on the first date.
The poll, conducted by California-based health research firm Inner Body, also found that 57% of Republicans want to have sex right away, while 52% of Democrats have the same high sex drive.
“We had sex on the first date, so that was the answer,” an anonymous Trump supporter walking through TriBeCa with his girlfriend joked to The Washington Post.
“We have the same political beliefs, but if she likes Biden, I think we can still find a solution,” he said.
Some young couples saw a correlation between hookup culture and political preferences.
“You attract people with what you put out there, but I think politics creates a divide in who certain people are attracted to,” said Fatim Haitala, 23, a single independent.
The survey of 972 people found that six in 10 non-Democrats would break up with their partner if they voted for Joe Biden.
“Most people are willing to compromise, but find it impossible to find middle ground because the other party is so far removed from their core values,” said Tim Barclay, senior writer and chief researcher at Inner Body.
“If I was on a dating app and I found out the other person was liberal, we wouldn’t be compatible because I would say things that they wouldn’t like and we wouldn’t share the same values,” says Rachel Green, 30.
61% of survey respondents said political differences were an obstacle to doing business.
Malik Schroeder, 22, and his girlfriend Jewel Moore, 23, met on Tinder and have been dating for two years.
“I asked her very early on [who she voted for] “Just to make sure she’s not a Nazi or something,” he said.
“The reality is, I’ve dated more people with whom I disagreed politically than not, and that’s not a good thing,” said one woman who described herself as an “extremist.”
“I wanted to be that person who was like, ‘Oh, I can coexist and I can agree to disagree,’ and then I realized that’s who they are. They literally embody political views.”
