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Poll: college-educated women end friendships over politics.
Instapundit ^ | 05/13/2025 | Ed Driscoll

Posted on 05/13/2025 8:12:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

I NEED A SURVEY TO TELL ME THIS? Poll: college-educated women end friendships over politics.

If you wanted to drill down to the biggest dividing factor here, it’s the portion of the coalition made up of college-educated women – a cohort that now dominates the politics of the Democratic coalition. In their circles, they say differences of political opinion have led to broken friendships with friends and neighbors at a more than 40-point rate – 67 percent to 24 percent.

One factor here could be an underlying belief that your friends and neighbors are just flat-out racists over their political opinions. Of Kamala Harris voters, Cygnal’s poll found that 62 percent say race relations have gotten worse in the past five years (since the summer of George Floyd), while 55 percent of Trump voters say race relations have improved or stayed the same. And again, the same cohort shows up to double-down on that belief: fully 75 percent of white female Democrats with a college-degree say race relations have gotten worse since 2020 – compared to just 41 percent of black men.

It’s the allyship that matters most, you see – not friendship.

Just as a reminder of how ephemeral most tribal political battles are, the late Charles Krauthammer wrote:

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

That was back in 2002, when the then-Hitlers on the left were George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Both of whom the Harris campaign eagerly sought endorsements from last year.



TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: female; friendships; politics; women
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1 posted on 05/13/2025 8:12:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“Suit yourself! Keep going with all your many Purity Tests.. It’s gonna get awfully lonely, way up there on your pink plastic High Horse!”


2 posted on 05/13/2025 8:16:06 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: SeekAndFind

Women don’t have friendships. They have competitors and targets.


3 posted on 05/13/2025 8:17:42 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: SeekAndFind

“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.” —George Orwell


4 posted on 05/13/2025 8:20:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

“Women don’t have friendships. They have competitors and targets.”

This is true only 98.7 % of the time.

L


5 posted on 05/13/2025 8:22:14 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That Orwell quote was the first thing that came to mind.


6 posted on 05/13/2025 8:22:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m college-educated. I’d end a friendship on politics. Lord knows I wouldn’t start a romance of the opposite kind.


7 posted on 05/13/2025 8:25:34 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
BTW, just so you know, they weren't your friends in the first place.

8 posted on 05/13/2025 8:28:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: dfwgator

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EFDZKaIT7ro&pp=ygUbRmFtaWx5IGd1eSwgZGVhdGggb2IgYSBkYXRl


9 posted on 05/13/2025 8:29:38 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Gee. Now that you mention that...


10 posted on 05/13/2025 8:29:41 PM PDT by FreeperCell
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

💯


11 posted on 05/13/2025 8:30:33 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Big Red Badger

Cat Lady’s too.


12 posted on 05/13/2025 8:31:03 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.” —George Orwell

Orwell really had things figured out, I believe that he was certainly a modern day prophet.


13 posted on 05/13/2025 8:33:46 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: SeekAndFind
Poll: college-educated women end friendships over politics.

Poll: college-INDOCTRINATED women end friendships over politics.

There, fixed it.

14 posted on 05/13/2025 8:33:52 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberal white women are the absolute worst.


15 posted on 05/13/2025 8:34:32 PM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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To: SeekAndFind

They aren’t stupid. They’re evil.


16 posted on 05/13/2025 8:35:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: gundog

Savage.


17 posted on 05/13/2025 8:36:02 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have a tacit agreement with my bandmates, who are all liberal democrats. We simply do not discuss politics or political current events. We play music together and get along just fine. We can’t quite understand the wives who get into arguments with their friends over politics.

But then, we’re guys. We want to get along. Women are different. Real different.


18 posted on 05/13/2025 8:37:14 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
I’m college-educated. I’d end a friendship on politics. Lord knows I wouldn’t start a romance of the opposite kind. Define "romance"
19 posted on 05/13/2025 8:37:56 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

20 posted on 05/13/2025 8:39:53 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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