Campaign 2016 is ruining relationships

Posted by | October 31, 2016 06:30 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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… and straining marriages.

The North Carolina couple won’t even watch the news in the same room anymore. He is voting for Donald Trump to cancel out her vote for Hillary Clinton. The tension has brought their marriage to its lowest point, she said.

“I really, genuinely think the marriage is the worst it has ever been,” said Tasha, who, like the others in a Charlotte, N.C., focus group last week, gave just her first name.

“It is a train wreck. I do not even want to hear it,” she said. “He has to put headphones on to listen to his Fox News. It sends me over the edge.”

Asked later to name one positive attribute about Clinton, Tasha’s husband, Kyler, struggled.

“There might have been something before this campaign,” he said. “But I hate her.”

In most elections, married couples tend to vote alike. But this year, polls indicate that married women are spurning the Republican nominee in numbers not seen in decades. In households around the country, husbands and wives who have traditionally voted the same ticket are parting ways, creating tension — and denial.

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Copyright 2016 Liberaland
By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.

6 responses to Campaign 2016 is ruining relationships

  1. whatthe46 October 31st, 2016 at 06:52

    ’cause crazy ass, old ass, white men (some) are stupid. duh. not only are relationships being tested, idiots have endorsed him and have murdered, lost their jobs, and ruined their careers because they have worshiped him. look at what’s happening to the GOPissers, the FBI, they are eating themselves up. gobble gobble gobble, have at it.

  2. Budda October 31st, 2016 at 08:13

    Any relationship being torn apart by this campaign was probably not that strong to begin with.

  3. Emma Goff October 31st, 2016 at 08:59

    I have also severed ties with my conservative church for their backing of Trump.

  4. mea_mark October 31st, 2016 at 09:58

    What relationships … I hate everybody … grrrr.

  5. oldfart October 31st, 2016 at 10:16

    “In households around the country, husbands and wives who have traditionally voted the same ticket are parting ways”

    If even half of this is true,… Hillary’s numbers at the end of Nov 8 will be phenomenal.

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