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You talked politics with your mother, brother, bartender and banker, and all it did was jack up your blood pressure. In this divisive period in American politics, two professors in Nebraska and one in California decided to conduct a survey in March 2017 to see how pervasive were high stress, conflict with family and friends, and even health problems related to thinking and talking about politics. The three — Kevin Smith and John Hibbing, political science professors at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Hibbing’s son, Matthew, an associate professor at the University of California, Merced — wrote a paper on their findings last year. 31.8% said exposure to media outlets promoting a contrary view “can drive me crazy.” 29.3% said they had lost their temper because of politics. 25.6% said they spend more time thinking about politics than they want to. 23.3% said politics compelled them to think seriously about moving. About 800 people took the survey through YouGov, a polling firm that recruited a demographically representative sample of American adults for the survey. Sign up for World-Herald news alerts Be the first to know when news happens. Get the latest breaking headlines sent straight to your inbox. Hibbing hopes to continue the survey through the years to make comparisons.

Suffering from insomnia? A new study shows that one in seven Americans are so riled up about politics that they’re losing sleep over it, according to a survey conducted for Bankrate.com. The more education and money Americans have, the more they lie awake over political worries, the survey found. Those on the coasts care about politics the most. Research firm GfK Custom Research polled 1,000 Americans on behalf of Bankrate.com from June 29 to July 1 to figure out what’s keeping them up at night. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points. Relationships were the biggest stressor at 41 percent, followed by money at 36 percent. Older millennials were the most likely to lose sleep in general. Want insight more often? Get Roll Call in your inbox Also Watch: To Combat California Fires, Some Lawmakers Calling for Additional Federal Aid spaceplay / pause qunload | stop ffullscreen ??volume mmute ??seek .