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[quote=Anonymous]About 75% of my friends and my wife's family are one party. My family and the remaining 25% of my friends are the other party. My wife and I are both moderates but I lean one way and my wife leans the other. We're really not that far apart. Of my friends, I have many who are very strongly opinionated about their politics, including some who are political lobbyists or activists. However, the friends that I keep are arms length are the ones who cannot separate friendship from politics. And I am still very close to several of my political lobbyist friends because the professional ones can keep their politics out of friendships. I find the volunteer activists are often the ones who insist that everyone within a nuclear blast radius of them MUST think exactly like them or be convinced to think exactly like them. These are the people that I'm polite with, but don't get too close to. One of my dearest friends in the world (he was one of my roommates in college) is extremely far out the opposite side of the political spectrum from me. He's one of the professional lobbyists that I know. He's also my source when I need to really understand the root of something or especially the other perspective. Although he is probably one of the more extreme people that I know from the other side, he is amazingly respectful and he finds ways to convince me of his side without every denigrating or insulting my opinion or side. [/quote]
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