Results: Politics Make Strange Bedfellows
Published on 10/25/2016
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No, this is not another survey about the election and the mud-slinging on both sides. The experts say that the key to a successful relationship is to be politically and religiously compatible. So what happens when you differ on these two things? Some couples prove you can make it work (maybe not all...) but you have to be respectful of your differences. Agree to disagree. Here are a few who may come from opposite sides politically, but they made it work. How many are you aware of?
James Carville and Mary Matalin -- He was the strategist behind the Clinton campaign and is now a Democratic pundit. She is a Republican political pundit who worked for President George H. W. Bush on his 1992 reelection campaign.
23%
438 votes
George and Laura Bush -- Laura Bush mostly kept her political views to herself when her husband was in office but when he got out she announced on Larry King that she supported gay marriage and abortion.
28%
533 votes
Gerald and Betty Ford -- She was very liberal which was quite different than her conservative husband. She said that Roe v. Wade was a great decision, was also fine with pre-marital sex and marijuana use among young people.
23%
445 votes
John Kerry and Teresa Heinz - In fact Teresa was a registered Republican until 2003, the same year her husband decided to run for President.
12%
230 votes
Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger -- Although no longer together, despite being a prominent Democrat, Shriver was crucial to her Republican ex-husband's political success.
34%
653 votes
None of these
47%
904 votes
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Besides politics, no other topic can divide people like religion (I think we all can attest to that on here!). But some couples can make even that work. Here are just a few couples who did not religious differences come between them. How many do you know?
David Bowie and Inman -- He was a agnostic (or as he put it nearly atheist) and she was Muslim
23%
432 votes
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson -- Hanks is Protestant and Rita is Greek Orthodox (her father was Muslim)
18%
354 votes
Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky -- Chelsea is Methodist and Marc is Jewish
21%
398 votes
Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft -- Brooks was Jewish and Bancroft was Catholic
18%
345 votes
Larry King and Shawn King -- Although their marriage right now is in questionable status, King is Jewish and Shawn is Mormon
9%
174 votes
None of these
56%
1072 votes
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Speaking of "strange bedfellows" (in a business sense) Martha Stewart has teamed up with Snoop Dogg in a new VH1 series. Martha & Snoop's Dinner Party will feature the unlikely pair teaming up to throw a dinner party for their celebrity friends. Do you find this pairing to be quite unusual?
Yes, very much
38%
733 votes
Sort of
20%
384 votes
Not really
17%
331 votes
Don't know either/both to judge
25%
470 votes
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Strange collaborations are common in the music field. Remember David Bowie and Bing Crosby getting together to sing Little Drummer Boy in 1977? Here are a few of the most successful odd pairings...which did you enjoy?
Elton John and Eminem - Stan
14%
264 votes
Michael Jackson and The Notorious B.I.G. -- This Time Around
9%
174 votes
Nelly and Tim McGraw --Over and Over
15%
294 votes
Snoop Lion (Snoop Dogg) and Miley Cyrus -- Ashtrays and Heartbreaks
9%
164 votes
Run DMC and Aerosmith -- Walk This Way
25%
475 votes
Kanye West and Bon Iver -- Lost In The World
4%
78 votes
None of them/don't know any of these
55%
1052 votes
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