I was thinking about making this poll, “How many of your Facebook friends/contacts share your political views,” but that would rule out a lot of Dopers who don’t use Facebook.
In my instance I’d guess that at least 2/3 of my friends hold political views that are different from, or opposite of, mine.
If you happen to have an exact 50-50 split of family and friends, politically, then feel free to select any category as you see fit.
Poll coming…
Um, I should have worded the poll, “The majority of YOUR family/friends,” but you get the point, the poll is about you and your social circle 
I think the question is more nuanced. I tend to have “liberal” friends but we disagree on all sorts of issues.
Sure, when you lump everybody into a dichotomy of right or left, then yes people will almost overwhelmingly associate with people who perceive the world in the same way… but you’d expect that given the false dichotomy. I’d argue that many who seem hard right may, for instance, only be right wing on one overriding issue (usually guns). Likewise with the hard left (usually LGBT & abortion). I know hard left authoritarians and hard right communists (yeah, don’t ask, it’s… weird). How exactly do you categorize that?
I wouldn’t consider a right-winger to be my friend, and I have only one family member who is still alive and in contact with me. So “most family/friends” agree with me.
Right, I understand, it’s not black and white. But fine-tuning the question might have resulted in a very cluttered poll.
I live in a bubble. None of my friends or family (or co-workers) are the slightest bit conservative or Republican. And, even better, none believe in gods. I suppose I should make an exception for my in-laws, but I seldom see them and we never discuss politics. (they’re very nice).
My friends and I all vote for the same party, mostly (Dems, of course).
But in terms of agreement on policy, especially fiscal, I’m not sure there’s actually a ton of agreement. I’m basically on the left-right center line in standard economic policy, but extremely libertarian on the authoritarian/libertarian axis.
Given the issues that are most important to me, there’s only one choice for who to vote for. But I don’t think most of my friends support either my (relatively) conservative views on taxes, school choice, or ‘capitalism’ in general, nor my (relatively, again) radical views on drug legalization and criminal justice reform, open immigration, and free speech issues.
My family and friends are all over the map. I don’t pick my friends based on their politics, and I didn’t get a chance to pick my family (or vice versa).
Regards,
Shodan
My family and neighborhood/childhood friends are largely Republican. My wife and brother are pretty much true independents–I couldn’t tell you for sure which way they vote in a normal election, but both went D in this recent election. The friends I’ve made from my 20s onward are mostly either Democrats or progressive/left-wing. (I tend to consider Democrats fairly centrist in the scheme of things myself, and I consider myself a Democrat. I’m socially liberal, and fiscally moderate.) So the majority of my friends and family are probably from my side of the aisle. Not counting this election and taking something like the Obama-Romney election as an example, I’d expect something like two thirds of my friends and family voted Democrat and a third Republican. This year, it shifted more Democrat.
I used to think that this kinda stuff mattered, but I have learned that it really doesn’t. Things have not gotten better in my home town during any of the presidents that were alive when I have been (Regan on…) Stuff still sucks there, rich people pretty much fuck anyone out of anything they have, the story repeats after the buzz of “the new boss.” We quickly find out that the new one is pretty much “the same as the old boss.” The electorate seems to think that Trump was a good idea, but really, why not at this point? I mean its going to never change where I grew up and miss terribly. The rich are still going to be rich and do the assholish rich things they do there.
I would say that my family and friends all have different political views than I do, but we are all in the “fuck it it doesn’t really even matter things aren’t going to get better no matter what” camp anyway. If someone we like gets voted in, the other guys are just going to get in the way so why does it even matter?
I am of the camp that Thor and Captain America are awesome, but The Hulk and Iron Man suck ass.
My family is pretty mixed when it comes to politics. We usually avoid the topic at get-togethers. Much less stressful that way.
I grew up in rural Iowa, then wandered from college town to LA to college town to Chicago to rural Iowa to Twin Cities to rural Minnesota. My family has also shotgunned across everything west of the Mississippi, with corresponding marriages and realignments of politics. I’ve never based my friendships on politics, and I couldn’t imagine it any other way.
The question is badly worded. I won’t be friends with someone who’s openly racist, sexist, or anti-gay, but lots of people I know differ on other political positions. Avoiding that topic at get-togethers would be difficult, since my get-togethers for me basically always involve women and non-hets, and often involve non-white people. The kind of person who throws in a joke like ‘wish we had a few niggers to help move this crap’ doesn’t fit into my personal life at all.
Family? No, only one person shares my views.
Friends, most lean somewhat leftward. I’d guess 70/30 lean dem vs GOP.
I lean conservative but my parents and siblings are all pretty darn liberal. I don’t generally talk politics with friends, but I’d say they’re a 50/50 split.
Look at my name. What do you think?
I am a true Independent/moderate libertarian so neither major party fits me very well. My parents and stepfather are hardcore Republicans. My ex-wife is an avowed liberal and feminist as are two of my SIL’s. The other SIL is a fundamentalist Bible thumper. A have a branch of ultra-liberal family in Colorado that most people would claim is just a strawman stereotype if I described them in full but I still love spending time with them.
I don’t pick friends based on politics and they are all over the place. I felt genuinely bad for my liberal activist, yoga teaching, vegetarian childhood friend that took her kids on a special vacation to celebrate the first female President on election night. I don’t share most of her views but I know she is a great person and we have a long history together. That is the only thing that matters to me.
Friends, yes. While there’s certainly variety, most are some flavor of libertarian-leaning liberal (anti-drug control, anti-censorship, not particularly enamored with unions, etc.).
Family, no. 20 years ago I had some common ground (or thought I did), but they’ve largely gone off the deep end. It’s getting tough to be in a room with more than three of them at a time.
I’m a moderate: I hold liberal and conservative positions. So I guess friends with nobody politically these days, just friends with my friends. Didn’t pick my family.
My relationship politics are all over the map, ranging from pretty hardcore Trump voters to Bernie and Hillary voters. I grew up in red state territory and was at one time more conservative than I am now. In recent years I’ve gravitated more toward the left, as have my relationships. But I am still in touch with old friends, many of whom make it no secret how they see the world around them and I haven’t really made it a secret how I see things either. We still get along. About two or three posters in particular have become insufferable and I try to hide their posts so that Facebook’s algorithms take the hint, but that’s about it. I wouldn’t abandon a friendship with someone unless I had serious doubts about their values. Politics aren’t always reflective of someone’s values. People vote for someone for reasons that are complex.