{"id":3840,"date":"2012-09-16T20:52:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T01:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2012-09-16T20:53:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T01:53:24","slug":"the-marriage-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2012\/09\/16\/the-marriage-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marriage Gap: Married People Support Romney, Singles Support Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div id=\"resizetext\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2012\/09\/16\/the-marriage-gap\/istock_000014233105xsmall-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3841\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3841\" title=\"iStock_000014233105XSmall\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/9\/2012\/09\/iStock_000014233105XSmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"285\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hello, are you married?<!--more-->\u00a0 No, I\u2019m not trying to pick you up\u2026 I\u2019m trying to determine which candidate you support!<\/p>\n<p>According to a new study released today by Gallup, marriage is a significant indicator of party affiliation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Married registered voters prefer Republican challenger Mitt Romney over Democratic President Barack Obama by 54% to 39%, according to Gallup data collected from June to August. On the other hand, nonmarried voters break strongly for the president over Romney, 56% to 35%. Marriage is a significant predictor of presidential vote choice even after income, age, race, gender, education, religiosity, region, and having minor children are statistically controlled for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/157469\/married-voters-romney-voters.aspx?utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=syndication&amp;utm_content=morelink&amp;utm_term=All%20Gallup%20Headlines\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>, though the article \u2014 sadly \u2014 doesn\u2019t contain advice for single Republicans trying to find other conservatives to marry.<\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/home-front\/316889\/marriage-gap\/nancy-french\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study released today by Gallup, marriage is a significant indicator of party affiliation. 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