Of these seven, four are also Republican states with the highest rates of divorce in the U.S.
Of these seven, three are Democratic states with low divorce rates.
Now does this prove they were bias in their reporting?
You just can't make this stuff up unless you've got a bias and are doing the reporting.
These are the people who are teaching your children in school.

This entire piece is crap. In the first place, all of these states have people of the opposite party. What if most of the people in Kentucky getting divorces are DEMOCRATS? What if the rates for NY are so low, because no one is getting married anymore, and they've just shacking up for a while until they get tired of each other. Get stats on actual REGISTRATION of the individuals if you want to be taken seriously.

it's exactly as you describe with welfare usage. 'don't see why it wouldn't be that way with divorce.

These statistics presumably don't include the voting preferences of the people who cheated, only how their state voted. It could quite easily be that the cheaters are the ones most dissatisfied with living in a state run by a political party they do not vote for, and this is a kind of "release" for them.

I'm more interested in how the politicians behave - Kennedy, Clinton, Weiner. Are there three comparable Republican names who cheated on their wives so readily?

Since 1970, 56% of sex scandals among senators, congressmen, and one president have involved Republicans. Since 2000, 75% have involved Republicans.

I know post is old, but where is the source? I call BS.

Hi Sean. Thanks for your comment. All the sources are linked to in the article. Look for the blue text.

Sanford, Vitter, Dole, Limbaugh, Giuliani, Thurmond, Livingston, Gingrich...

Yeah, without giving it any real thought there are Trump, Vitter, and of course any list of cheaters needs to include Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat, the two Michigan tea party Republican legislators who cheated with each other just months after first being elected.

You can go all of the way back to President Eisenhower who is known to have had a long running affair with his female chauffer forward to prominent Republicans in Congress now and note that all of the finalists for the Republican nomination for President in 2008 were in remarriages. Not one was married to his first wife. People most often get divorced exactly because of cheating on their wife and then getting divorced by their wife. I do acknowledge though that JFK was an embarrassment to Democrats and Catholics for his infidelity which was well known within the Secret Service.

Recent articles point to a national trend of people moving to places where their political philosophy prevails. A study though matching public records of divorce with party registration would be more informative and probably show double the divorce rate is my case. One of the Republican couples I socialize with consists of a wife and a husband each on their third marriage, and in one school my wife taught at the children weren't even sure of their relationship beyond they lived in the same house because of their parents somewhere along the chain of divorces.

Cain, McCain & Reagon

I will give you Cain and McCain. McCain in particular is a pig. Cain may be . But Reagan you have to remember he cheated on his first wife when he was a Democrat. He Flipped parties in and around 58 or so and was faithful to Nancy the rest of his life. So two out of three and neither President. You need to try again

I realize this post was months ago, but puh-leeze!!! Reagan was always a conservative. It just happens that when he was younger, the conservatives voted Democrat. By standards of each party's platform in modern days, he was always a Republican.
And bwims - it is statistically almost impossible for your premise to be correct. If you're familiar with representative samples, you'll understand why I say that. I also doubt that there are a lot of people who cheat on their spouse because they don't like which party is in power of their state.

All of the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination candidates that made it past the Iowa straw poll were divorced and remarried, and if that is not good enough President Eisenhower the general in charge of World War II in Europe and later the President of the USA had a lengthy affair with his WWII chauffer. I give you a challenge, find out how many Democrats and in contrast Republicans in Congress are divorced. For less than $40 you can look them up individually with an all day pass to one of the finder services if that information is not otherwise online. Those services use public records, which included divorce cases.

I should also point out that all of the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination candidates who made it that far were married to their first and only wife.

I am not sure I understand the numbers. They seem very low. 4 per 1,000 residents includes way too many outliers.

I am a statistician/PhD. This study is fundamentally flawed. It does not tell us the difference in divorce rates, whatsoever. Liberals don't get married, while conservatives do, as a general rule.

In order to be accurate, it must directly compare the % of liberals/Democrats getting divorced to the % of conservatives/Republicans getting divorced.

Conservatives place a much higher value upon marriage, while for liberals it is more of an outdated institution. Consequently, less liberals get married, and of those that do, a higher % gets divorced.

in other words, Lovetoknow would LOVE to know, since they don't know.
welfare usage in "red states" among people of "blue" and "red" self-identity might be a similar scenario to this. However, Lovetoknow wouldn't know.

This is a few years old but it shows that it's pretty similar across party lines;

About 29% of Democrats, 30% of independents, and 26% of Republicans are or have been divorced or separated.

About 19% of Democrats, 19% of independents, and 15% of Republicans admit to having an extramarital affair.

So why include only how states voted, and who really cares except those who wish to hate?