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Maple Match: service helps Trump-fleeing Americans find love in Canada; Apparently another SPAM thread
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Maple Match: service helps Trump-fleeing Americans find love in Canada

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Online dating portal is already fielding desperate pleas from hundreds of Americans fearful of November’s election result

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n March, a poll found that nearly 20% of Americans would consider moving to Canada if a Trump presidency comes to pass. Well, the dream doesn’t have to be mere fantasy any longer. A new company has arrived that intends to help whisk the country’s jaded abroad.

Maple Match is a matchmaking service like none other. In the words of its website, it “makes it easy for Americans to find the ideal Canadian partner to save them from the unfathomable horror of a Trump presidency”. The app, in other words, wants to help Trump-averse singles find love – and perhaps a new country to call home. At the moment, eager singles can sign up for early access when the dating app launches properly. And when it does, many thousands of unhappy Americans and generous Canadians will be paired.


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The service’s founder is Joe Goldman, a 25-year-old education research and budding entrepreneur based in Austin, Texas. A self-described man of “liberal persuasions” living in a red state, Goldman says he has a natural affinity for Canada and its progressive leftwing image. Maple Match is a manifestation of his dual passions: connecting different people and his neighbors to the north. “When this election came about and I started seeing Donald Trump and the rise of his candidacy I started getting concerned, just like anybody else,” he said. “I thought it might be interesting to try something like this out.”

At first his ambitions were modest: “Last week I had a hundred page views and I thought that was a great – I made a hundred people smile.” But then virality transformed Maple Match into an international craze. Last Friday, Maple Match was getting 200 sign-up requests an hour. Today nearly 5,000 singles have signed up for Maple Match – and the app hasn’t even launched.

Today nearly 5,000 singles have signed up for Maple Match – and the app hasn’t even launched
Goldman has attracted Americans and Canadians alike – the former hoping to get out of the US and the latter glad to harbor them. Maple Match has been fielding all sorts of desperate pleas. “Please help me,” a 22-year-old American writes on his Maple Match application. “I found out my parents are voting for Trump and it literally broke my heart.” “I want to meet an American woman who disapproves of Trump,” writes one Canadian. “She must be willing to become a hockey fan and eat maple syrup and Beaver Tails in my igloo.”


http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/10/maple-match-dating-service-americans-canada-trump
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There is now a dating site for singles feeling the Bern — and it’s so popular it won’t stop crashing
“The 1% aren't the only ones getting screwed this election season”

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/19/there_is_now_a_dating_site_for_singles_feeling_the_bern_and_its_so_popular_it_wont_stop_crashing/
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