OHIO is the real swing state regardless of how voters sway, as recent data revealed the high amount of infidelity in the heart-shaped state.
The US city with the most nonmonogamy is in a former battleground region, according to notorious married dating site Ashley Madison.
Ashley Madison CSO Paul Keable in conversation with The U.S. Sun[/caption]
Ashley Madison sign-up data reveals the cities with the most nonmonogamy[/caption]
Voters cast ballots at a polling station in Dayton, Ohio, in March 2020[/caption]
Columbus, Ohio, is the top-rated hot spot for infidelity — and Ashley Madison’s Chief Strategy Officer Paul Keable says it’s because the midwestern state recognizes the true desires of the country.
“I think it is a representation of all things being America,” Keable told The U.S. Sun.
“Ohio is often been actually a battleground state from a political standpoint, because it goes back and forth between leaning left and leaning right, but never a full-blown red state or a full-blown blue state.”
Ohio was considered a swing state from 1980 until 2020 when the state swung red towards Donald Trump in the presidential election.
Joe Biden beat out Trump for the commander-in-chief spot — breaking Ohio’s 52-year streak of voting for the winner, according to NPR.
The tight race was evaporated when Trump won with an eight-point margin, meaning Ohio had less of an equal outcome than in previous elections.
Swing states typically could end up choosing either party in the election due to previous results where the voted winner won the state by less than three points.
This year, the swing states playing a key role in the election include Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Washington.
HEART-SHAPED STATE
Both Trump and Kamala Harris’ campaigns have spent less time and money focusing on Ohio as a battleground state ahead of November.
While Ohio residents are swinging less at the polls, they appear to be swinging in their relationships more, according to sign-up data from Ashley Madison.
Columbus, Cincinnati, and Cleveland all placed on Ashley Madison’s study via YouGov exploring America’s hot spots for nonmonogamy.
“I think it’s not the high life of New York City or LA,” Keable explained.
“And I think people are recognizing that monogamy has certain constraints.
“And through our platform, with a bit of discretion, they can explore it. So I think people are discovering that there’s more to life than happily ever after.”
Ashley Madison Scandal
The 2024 Netflix documentary is based on the 2015 scandal that outed users on the affair-seeking website
The Canadian dating service was launched in 2001 and marketed toward married individuals looking to engage in extramarital affairs.
Users were prompted to create profiles and communicate with each other within the platform.
In 2015, a group of hackers called the Impact Team accessed the site’s database and threatened to leak information if it didn’t shut down.
After the company refused, the hackers revealed users’ personal information, including names, addresses, and emails.
Several celebrities’ names were linked to the site, including Josh Duggar, Jionni LaValle, Josh Taekman, Sam Rader, Hunter Biden, and Jeff Ashton.
On May 15, 2024, Netflix released a docuseries based on the scandal titled: Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal
Ashley Madison, which launched in 2001 and marketed to married people looking for affairs, now promises its users discretion and anonymity after a data breach in 2015 leaked the identities of millions of users who were cheating on their partners.
A Netflix documentary released in May explored the cyberattack and featured the celebrities who were outed during the scandal.
Keable, who joined the company two years before the infamous leak, said that users seek out honesty and privacy on the site, which boasts its tagline of “Life is short. Have an affair.”
CENTRALIST CHEATERS
The dating site now has over 85 million users – and another recent study by Ashley Madison via YouGov revealed that the majority of members politically identify as centralists.
However, the survey also noted that the majority of women members on the married dating site identify as liberal.
While 67% of member respondents said they’ve already decided who they’re voting for, 71% of respondents also noted that they don’t care about aligning politically with the person they’re having an affair with.
“Within a primary relationship, I think it’s very important,” Keable explained.
“If I’m going to live a life with you and raise children, we certainly need to have a similar viewpoint on how we’re going to live our life and raise our children, and politics is going to have a function within that.
“But when it comes to a secondary relationship or an affair, that becomes less important because I’m not going to be building a life with you.
“This might be for the weekend, it might be for a few months, but it’s not forever,” he continued.
“So the needs of the political realm don’t bleed into your affair as much as they might bleed into your primary relationship.”
THE HONEST TRUTH
While the Ashley Madison CSO insists that affairs are a normal part of life, another study emphasized his point by proving that some people would rather cheat on their partner than be unfaithful in other aspects of their lives.
86% of Ashley Madison respondents said that they would rather cheat on their partner than on their political party.
Keable said that the survey of Ashley Madison users likely accurately represents America because members have nothing to lose by answering truthfully on the site’s survey.
“In a really ironic way, the data shows that Ashley Madison users are probably more honest in their profiles and their conversations than on a more traditional dating app,” he said.
An Ashley Madison survey revealing what members stay faithful to[/caption]
Ashley Madison’s site has the tagline of ‘Life is short. Have an affair’ (stock image)[/caption]
