We may follow stories about who they’re dating, what they’re wearing and how they spend their downtime, but it turns out most Americans don’t care about their favorite celebrity’s politics. A new survey finds that nearly two-thirds (64%) of Americans don’t actually want to know how their favorite celeb votes.
The poll of 2-thousand U.S. adults asks their thoughts on famous folks and politics and finds:
- Only 22% say they’d be happy to find out if their favorite singer or actor voted red or blue.
- If they found out their favorite celeb didn’t agree with them politically, 18% admit they’d stop being a fan.
- Gen Z (37%) and millennials (30%) are more likely to want to know their favorite celebrities’ political affiliation than older Americans in Gen X (23%) and baby boomers (18%).
- Gen Z (41%) is also more likely to stop being a fan if they found out their favorite celeb disagrees with their politics than millennials (20%), Gen X (17%) and baby boomers (also 17%).
- And it’s not just famous people Americans don’t want to know about, more than half (57%) of those polled don’t want to know how their coworkers vote either.
- Almost two-thirds (63%) think it’s rude to ask someone who they voted for.
- But younger generations don’t see sharing their politics in the workplace as a bad thing and half of Gen Z respondents say they’d prefer to know how their colleagues vote.
- Only 14% don’t consider it rude to ask if their coworkers are more conservative or liberal.
- Times seem to have changed, as more than half (59%) feel people are more hesitant to share their political views now than in the past 10 years.
Source: Talker
Scott's Thoughts:
- We don’t need to know who you voted for, just keep entertaining us!
- I am just a small time radio DJ and even I try not to share political views.
- I think it is rude to ask someone who they voted for. Maybe for spouses and immediate family but not beyond that.