polls – Page 2 – Hank Kalet

The disconnect in these responses is rather troubling. (As is the fact that we still feel we need to ask this question.)

Although 92 percent of the NEWSWEEK Poll’s respondents claim they would vote for a black candidate (up from 83 percent in 1991), only 59 percent believe the country is actually ready for an African-American president (an improvement over 37 percent in a 2000 CBS News poll). Similarly, 86 percent of voters say they would vote for a female commander in chief, but only 58 percent believe the country is ready for one (up from 40 percent in a 1996 CBS poll).

So Americans say they would vote for a black or woman candidate, but they don’t think their neighbors would. It leaves me wondering if this is really just code, a way for poll respondents to dismiss a black or woman candidate without having to take responsibility. Or am I reading too much into it?

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Troubling responses