On Twitter and in the press, liberals tarred Vice President Mike Pence as a fundamentalist patriarch, better suited for bygone eras of sexual inequality, when it was revealed that he avoids having meals alone with women other than his wife and from attending events without her where alcohol is served.

But a poll released before the holiday pretty much turns that on its head. It’s Pence who’s more in touch with the mainstream, and his detractors who are at the fringes.