The New York Post Online Edition runs a story by Deborah Orin with some very telling facts about voters’ willingness to vote for a woman president.
Apparently, there appears to be support for a woman president when pollsters ask likely voters whether they would vote for one. This could be written of to the desire to be PC so one pollster has asked likely voters if their friends would vote for a woman president. While this also isn’t the most accurate way to tell real-world votes it had some surprising results. Those who say 72% that they would vote for a woman also reported that only 49% of their friends and family would.
The full statistics
Among seniors, 62 percent claim they’d be willing to vote for a woman, but said only 32 percent of their friends and family would.
Among Democrats, 84 percent said they’d be willing to vote for a woman, but only 59 percent said their friends would.
Among Republicans, it’s a 61-to-41 percent gap; among women, 75-to-51 percent, and among men, 68-to-47 percent.