August 22, 2008
05:44 pm
As long as he doesn’t get married
Bwah? Is this real?
There has got to be more to the demographics of this poll. We're talking about an electorate that worries about a candidate's income, what kind of underwear they wear, their wife's job, the number of houses they own... and they think that 60% of Americans would vote for a gay president?
Kind of makes you wonder: it's okay to elect a gay person to the highest office in the country, but dammit -- they shouldn't be allowed to marry. Ever.
Bwah? Is this real?
More than six in ten U.S. voters say they could support an openly gay candidate for president of the United States, and 70% say they’d support the appointment of an openly gay cabinet secretary, according to a new nationwide poll from Zogby International.
Sixty-six percent of poll respondents said they could support an openly gay vice-presidential candidate, while 69% said a gay candidate for U.S. Senate could get their vote. The poll of 1,089 adults was conducted August 13 to 15 for the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute (GLLI), a non-partisan leadership development organization. [Victory Fund]
There has got to be more to the demographics of this poll. We're talking about an electorate that worries about a candidate's income, what kind of underwear they wear, their wife's job, the number of houses they own... and they think that 60% of Americans would vote for a gay president?
Kind of makes you wonder: it's okay to elect a gay person to the highest office in the country, but dammit -- they shouldn't be allowed to marry. Ever.
posted by Gene Cowan | category Right = Wrong
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When I saw these poll results earlier today, I was also stunned, as they're very much at odds with the 2007 Gallup poll I've seen suggesting that gays the lowest on the list (just above atheists, so I'm never running for office) of those that people would be willing to vote for president. 55% said they would vote for a homosexual, while only 45% said they would vote for an atheist. Still, this was already much higher than the 2006 gallup poll, so maybe the numbers this year aren't as hard to believe as I first thought. Granted, the question in 2006 was asked differently, not "would /you/ vote for," but "do you think Americans are ready to elect a president who is...", and 91% said Americans are not ready to elect a gay president. Maybe people tell pollsters that, oh, of course /they/ would be willing to vote for a gay or atheist, but that no one else would. Heavens, /I'm/ not a bigot, though everyone else I know is.
Posted by Thom Watson on 08/22 at 07:51 PM
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