POLL: 50% Say They’re “Ready” For A Gay President

Politico reports:

As the Democratic Party fields its first serious presidential contender who is openly gay, half of American voters say that they personally are ready for a gay or lesbian president, but are split about whether the country as a whole is ready. According to a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll of registered voters, 50 percent of respondents said they were either definitely or probably ready to have a commander in chief who is openly gay, compared with 37 percent who said they were either definitely or probably not ready.

But voters were more pessimistic when asked whether they thought the country was ready for an openly gay president — 40 percent said they thought the country was ready, with 44 percent saying the country was not ready. That gap grew even wider when voters were asked whether they thought their neighbors were ready for a gay president. About a quarter of respondents answered affirmatively, while 46 percent said their neighbors were either definitely or probably not ready for a gay president.

How much of these responses are legitimate good-faith efforts to guess what the country thinks vs projecting their hidden homophobia?https://t.co/Q94fiKvrve

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) October 30, 2019

Show me a Venn diagram of people who aren’t ready for a gay president and people who don’t mind a racist, serial sexual assaulter, habitual liar, narcissistic psychopathic one. https://t.co/yk5YrLrmbR

— Larissa Mogano (@XO_LM) October 30, 2019