It’s been a long and divisive election season, and as the United States gets ready to vote in a new leader, its citizens are eager to spend the dying days of the current presidency in the arms of a special someone. Anyone, in fact.
Craigslist, the international classifieds website, is teeming with hook-up requests from men and women looking to get cosy as the polls start to close. Some ads express election exhaustion, while others are more tense and pessimistic.
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Apparently, heading to the Craigslist personals in a moment of national tension isn’t new. In January 2015, as winter storm Juno prepared to engulf New York, there was a spike in the “Casual Encounters” posts on the site, Alternet reported. The section had a total of 213 blizzard-related posts, while the “Men Seeking Men” category had 99.
Here is a glimpse at the Election Day intimacy posts on Craigslist sites across the U.S.
New York
Austin, TX
San Francisco
Richmond, VA
Las Vegas
Here’s hoping there were a couple of genuine love connections, too.
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