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Contents:
- A GAY PRINT? THE MAJORY OF AMERINS BELIEVE THE UNTRY ISN’T READY
- IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
- TMP SAYS HE WOULD VOTE FOR A GAY PRINT
- TMP: I’D VOTE FOR A GAY PRINT
- ISLAND HOE STAFF SAYS “KEEP KEY WT GAY”
- AMERINS WOULD RATHER VOTE FOR A PRINT WHO SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
A GAY PRINT? THE MAJORY OF AMERINS BELIEVE THE UNTRY ISN’T READY
Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay Democratic ndidate for print of the Uned Stat to mount a major mpaign, emerged as one of the lears the Democratic Party’s early nomatn ntts * would americans vote for a gay president *
Poll of the week: A new Qunipiac Universy poll fds that 70% of voters (cludg 86% of Democrats and pennts who lean Democratic) say they are open to electg a gay print. The same poll also disvered, however, that only 36% of voters (cludg 40% of Democrats and pennts who lean Democratic) thk the Uned Stat is ready to elect a gay print. He is a married gay man.
It’s also possible that some voters are not willg to adm to homophobia, while signalg by sayg sentially, “I’m ready, but others may not be. I should note that pollg on whether the untry is ready for a gay print differs signifintly om pollg on whether Amerins thought the untry was ready for a black print 2007 or a woman print 2015.
IS AMERI READY TO ELECT A GAY PRINT?
The 45th print unts himself among the 76 percent of Amerins who say they would vote for a gay ndidate, like Pete Buttigieg. * would americans vote for a gay president *
Intertgly, all three stanc, more voters said they were ready for a black, female or gay print than thought the untry was ready for one. But even if Amerins are more tolerant of gay Amerins than voters thk they are, more are prejudiced agast gay Amerins than they were agast black Amerins 2007 or women 2014.
Today, about a quarter of all voters (cludg 10% of Democrats) told Qunipiac that they weren’t open to vote for a gay man for print. Prejudice agast gay Amerins is evint other pollg as well. About 35% of Amerins openly admted the 2018 General Social Survey that they thought “homosexual sex relatns” were almost always or always wrong.
TMP SAYS HE WOULD VOTE FOR A GAY PRINT
A new poll fds a large crease Amerins who would nsir pullg the lever for a gay or lbian ndidate. * would americans vote for a gay president *
Now, Amerins have certaly bee more fortable wh the ia of a gay print than they ed to be.
The percentage of Amerins who say they would vote for a gay person for print is up 15-20 pots sce 2007, pendg on the poll you look at. The percentage of Democrats who say they would vote for a gay person for print is up around 25 pots.
Further, ’s possible that if Buttigieg be succsful on the mpaign trail, then Amerins may bee even more open to the ia of a gay print.
TMP: I’D VOTE FOR A GAY PRINT
Sixty years ago ls than half of Ameri said they would support a female, Jewish, black, gay, or Atheist ndidate. * would americans vote for a gay president *
Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay U. On the mpaign trail, he speaks of beg gay terms of fay valu, emphasizg he is a lovg, mted same-sex marriage, and what his ndidacy says about cln and equaly Ameri today. WATCH: Is Ameri Ready to Elect a Gay Print?
“Pete’s succs so far this mpaign reprents an evolutn Amerin polics, upendg tradnal notns of electabily and provg that Ameri is ready to elect s first openly gay print, ” Ellt Imse, munitn director at the LGBTQ Victory Fund, said. LGBTQ is an clive signatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and other sexual orientatns. The same poll showed 40% of Ain Amerin rponnts sayg they are reluctant to vote for a gay man.
ISLAND HOE STAFF SAYS “KEEP KEY WT GAY”
* would americans vote for a gay president *
“If Ain Amerins were sort of disproportnately cled to not vote for somebody who is gay, you would thk that would have shown up there as well, ” said David Barker, director of the Center for Congrsnal and Printial Studi at Amerin Universy Washgton. Man, ” wh Buttigieg’s same-sex marriage, and said Amerins are “still not ready to elect a gay guy kissg his hband on the bate stage [as] print. Would Conservativ vote for an openly gay print?
AMERINS WOULD RATHER VOTE FOR A PRINT WHO SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE
Print Donald Tmp said an terview Thursday that he would be open to votg for a gay ndidate for print. "Would Amerins vote for a gay man to be print?
""I thk that don't seem to be hurtg Pete 'Boot-edge-edge, '" Tmp said of the openly gay printial ntenr, slowly g the phoic pronunciatn of the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor's Malte surname.
""We would not, " Rivera has lots of pany: A 2019 Gallup poll found that 76 percent of Amerins would vote for a gay or lbian printial ndidate — jt behd the 80 percent who said they would vote for an evangelil Christian. Other groups are rated as more acceptable: Over 90 percent of Amerins said they would vote for a black, Catholic, Hispanic, female or Jewish there are groups ls popular for electoral polics than gay people: Mlims, atheists, socialists, people over 70 and people unr 40 (a group that clus Buttigieg, 38) Gallup began askg Amerins about their willgns to vote for a gay or lbian printial ndidate 1978, jt 26 percent said "y. Print Donald Tmp said he would vote for a gay printial ndidate, a qutn revived by the succs of former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s Whe Hoe bid.