NYT: Bernie Sanders has a "non-white problem"

[eric82oslo]

Maybe Sander's biggest problem is that he strongly selfidentify as a socialist?

According to Gallup's most recent numbers released today, only 47% of US adults say that they would even be willing to consider voting for a socialist. This is below every single denomation tested, including atheist (58%), Muslim (60%), evangelical Christian (surprisingly only 73%!), gay or lesbian (74%), Mormon (81%), Jewish (91%), Hispanic (91%), black (92%), woman (92%) and Catholic (93%). In other words, a socialist presidential candidate is the only one which not even a majority of American voters would be open to consider. What's perhaps just as bad for Sanders: Only 28% of selfproclaimed protestants would be willing to vote for a socialist.

Actually, less people would be willing to vote for a socialist today than the percentage who were willing to vote for a black or female candidate in 1960, the year when the first Catholic president was elected.

Strange they didn't ask for attitude towards Asian, Native American or biracial/multiracial candidates.

More here: http://www.gallup.com/poll/183791/support-nontraditional-candidates-varies-religion.aspx?utm_source=Politics&utm_medium=newsfeed&utm_campaign=tiles

By the way, I wonder what percentage would be willing to support a black, female, Hispanic, socialistic atheist candidate for president?

[eric82oslo]

Maybe Sander's biggest problem is that he strongly selfidentify as a socialist?

According to Gallup's most recent numbers released today, only 47% of US adults say that they would even be willing to consider voting for a socialist. This is below every single denomation tested, including atheist (58%), Muslim (60%), evangelical Christian (surprisingly only 73%!), gay or lesbian (74%), Mormon (81%), Jewish (91%), Hispanic (91%), black (92%), woman (92%) and Catholic (93%). In other words, a socialist presidential candidate is the only one which not even a majority of American voters would be open to consider. What's perhaps just as bad for Sanders: Only 28% of selfproclaimed protestants would be willing to vote for a socialist.

Actually, less people would be willing to vote for a socialist today than the percentage who were willing to vote for a black or female candidate in 1960, the year when the first Catholic president was elected.

Strange they didn't ask for attitude towards Asian, Native American or biracial/multiracial candidates.

More here: http://www.gallup.com/poll/183791/support-nontraditional-candidates-varies-religion.aspx?utm_source=Politics&utm_medium=newsfeed&utm_campaign=tiles

By the way, I wonder what percentage would be willing to support a black, female, Hispanic, socialistic atheist candidate for president?

Sanders is about as socialist as the guy who got elected 4 times. If he were nominated, people would listen to his positions and the % of Americans willing to vote for a "socialist" would skyrocket faster than the % of wealth going to the richest 1%.

I like Bernie Sanders, actually I love him. But he's no Hillary Clinton. Not even a Jeb Bush. And most certainly not a Barack Obama. He's just no presidential material. There's hardly any presidential DNA in his body. Okey, if Hillary wasn't in the race, I'd probably support him, but next to her he really looks like a midget. Not just a human midget, but more like an ant or a bacteria. Lol. US voters will/would lover Bernie's policies, no question about it, the single problem is him. He looks like a grumpy old man from one of those popular Hollywood movies (I forgot the title). He looks like an anti-hero. Americans don't want an anti-hero as their president I believe. Although Germans has had an anti-heroine as prime minister for a decade already, so you never know.