"I'm Not Racist But Everyone Else Is"

Poll: 79% Will Vote for African-American President

Seventy-nine percent (79%) of American voters say they're willing to vote for an African-American presidential candidate. However, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 55% believe their family, friends, and co-workers are willing to do the same.

See also, "I'm not sexist, but everyone else is"

Earlier, we asked a similar question about voting for a woman and found similar results. Seventy-eight percent (78%) say they'd vote for a woman but just 51% said their peer group would do the same.

The question I'd be asking is how many people don't agree with their positions on the issues, but would vote for them because they're black, or female?



Obama seems a decent senator for his consituents, albeit so left wing I'll never vote for him for President, unlike Hillary, where I might be persuaded to vote for her if the Republicans offer something even worse.



However, the country is 51% women voters, and I suspect a lot of them will vote Hillary despite her stance on the issues simply because she is female and they want to prove that a woman can be president. Ditto Obama and black, but there are more women than blacks, especially when you consider the numbers who actually vote.



(I have voted for a black for President: Alan Keyes, before he went crazy, and I'm willing to consider a woman on the merits of her candidacy, but not "because she's a woman." That's every bit as much a bigoted as voting for Hillary's opposition, if you do so because Hillary is a woman, and not because of their relative stance on the issues.)