{"id":15183,"date":"2024-10-23T09:04:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T09:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15183"},"modified":"2024-10-23T11:23:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T11:23:04","slug":"when-democrats-and-republicans-marry-debates-ensue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15183","title":{"rendered":"When Democrats and Republicans Marry, Debates Ensue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For some politically opposed couples, the election can\u2019t end soon enough.<\/p>\n

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In the 2024 presidential election, Karl Lenker is voting for former President Donald J. Trump. His girlfriend of a decade, Jan Lewin, is voting for Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n

So Ms. Lewin, 67, did not appreciate the Biden-Harris \u201cDumb and Dumber\u201d mug that her partner bought for his morning coffee. Nor was she a fan of the toilet paper featuring President Biden\u2019s face that he put in the bathroom of their condo in Atlanta. (Ms. Lewin retaliated by swapping it out for Trump-themed toilet paper.)<\/p>\n

Mr. Lenker, 74, a self-described \u201clibertarian Republican,\u201d does not hold back when it comes to talking politics. He believes Ms. Harris is a puppet being used to push a \u201cliberal left\u201d agenda that he calls \u201cinsane.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot all Democrats are stupid,\u201d Mr. Lenker said. \u201cBut all stupid people vote Democrat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Lewin tries not to be baited by Mr. Lenker\u2019s ribbing, but she can be equally blunt: \u201cI try not to attack Trump unless he\u2019s doing something so stupid I can\u2019t help it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Lenker and Ms. Lewin aren\u2019t the only couple sparring over political ideology in the run-up to this historically tight presidential election<\/a>. Recent estimates say about one-third of couples do not share a political affiliation, and for true split-ticket couples (6 percent<\/a> or fewer<\/a> marriages are between a Democrat and a Republican) this may be a \u201cprecarious moment,\u201d said Cynthia Peacock, an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Alabama who researches politically mismatched relationships.<\/p>\n

Ms. Peacock\u2019s research has found that people in such relationships tend to report slightly lower levels of relationship satisfaction than those who share the same views as their partner. \u201cPolitical attitudes, you know, they\u2019re not just like the opinions we have about our favorite movies or foods,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re tied to our morals, to our identity, to things we hold very deeply and personally.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For some politically opposed couples, the election can\u2019t end soon enough.In the 2024 presidential election, Karl Lenker is voting for former President Donald J. Trump. His girlfriend of a decade, Jan Lewin, is voting for Vice President Kamala Harris.So Ms. Lewin, 67, did not appreciate the Biden-Harris \u201cDumb and Dumber\u201d mug that her partner bought for his morning coffee. Nor was she a fan of the toilet paper featuring President Biden\u2019s face that he put in the bathroom of their condo in Atlanta. (Ms. Lewin retaliated by swapping it out for Trump-themed toilet paper.)Mr. Lenker, 74, a self-described \u201clibertarian Republican,\u201d does not hold back when it comes to talking politics. He believes Ms. Harris is a puppet being used to push a \u201cliberal left\u201d agenda that he calls \u201cinsane.\u201d\u201cNot all Democrats are stupid,\u201d Mr. Lenker said. \u201cBut all stupid people vote Democrat.\u201dMs. Lewin tries not to be baited by Mr. Lenker\u2019s ribbing, but she can be equally blunt: \u201cI try not to attack Trump unless he\u2019s doing something so stupid I can\u2019t help it,\u201d she said.Mr. Lenker and Ms. Lewin aren\u2019t the only couple sparring over political ideology in the run-up to this historically tight presidential election. Recent estimates say about one-third of couples do not share a political affiliation, and for true split-ticket couples (6 percent or fewer marriages are between a Democrat and a Republican) this may be a \u201cprecarious moment,\u201d said Cynthia Peacock, an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Alabama who researches politically mismatched relationships.Ms. Peacock\u2019s research has found that people in such relationships tend to report slightly lower levels of relationship satisfaction than those who share the same views as their partner. \u201cPolitical attitudes, you know, they\u2019re not just like the opinions we have about our favorite movies or foods,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re tied to our morals, to our identity, to things we hold very deeply and personally.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15185,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15186,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15183\/revisions\/15186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}