2016 Postmortem

Another aspect is how having a family can influence people politically.

Married people more often vote for Republicans. I suspect it's because having a spouse is another kind of "safety net" for people.

I'll be legally blind eventually (already blind in one eye), so it would be beneficial to have a spouse to help me. I just can't help but feel that I'd be a "bum deal" for a future wife! (Plus there's trust issues since my older brother's long-time wife left him after he started going blind and he could no longer work as an engineer.)

Anyway, here's the exit poll results for married/unmarried:
http://edition.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls
Married (59%): Trump 59%, Clinton 44%
Unmarried (41%): Clinton 55%, Trump 37%

Supposedly, the group that votes most strongly Republican are married, white evangelical Christians. I read an article a few years ago that they vote Republican about 95% of the time! Maybe they feel that they also get "support" from the church too? I'm sure that the abortion issue is a bigger part of it, though. (At least now. It wasn't in 1976 when they voted for Carter!)

EDIT: By the way, if none of the white evangelicals had voted, Clinton would have won the majority of the white vote too!