Amerins are more likely to say they would reject a ndidate olr than 70 than a ndidate who is gay, acrdg to a new Rters/Ipsos poll.
Contents:
- NEARLY 70 PERCENT OF AMERINS ARE OKAY WH A GAY PRINT, POLL SAYS
- A GAY PRINT? THE MAJORY OF AMERINS BELIEVE THE UNTRY ISN’T READY
- ALMOST 70 PERCENT OF AMERINS OK WH GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE, POLL FDS
- POLL: MAJORY OF AMERINS ARE FORTABLE WH GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE
- MOST WOULD VOTE FOR GAY PRINT, NOT SO SURE OTHERS WOULD
- ANALYSIS-TMP WOOS LGBT+ AMERINS AS POLLS HAND GAY VOTE TO BIN
NEARLY 70 PERCENT OF AMERINS ARE OKAY WH A GAY PRINT, POLL SAYS
A bed 68 percent are eher enthiastic (14 percent) or fortable (54 percent) wh a 2020 ndidate who is gay, like Pete Buttigieg. * gay president poll *
”Dpe a seri of anti-LGBTQ measur — cludg banng transgenr service members om the armed forc, supportg the right of adoptn agenci to reject same-sex upl, and opposg workplace protectns based on sexual orientatn and genr inty — the Tmp mpaign has publicized the print as a iend to the Augt, Tmp tweeted a mpaign vio ma by Richard Grenell, the openly gay former actg director of natnal telligence, llg the print “the strongt ally that gay Amerins have ever had the Whe Hoe. ”After clg to endorse Tmp 2016, the Log Cab Republins, a natnal LGBTQ nservative anizatn, endorsed the print for re-electn and lnched OUTSpoken, a multimedia mpaign signed to give gay nservativ a platform durg the race.
A GAY PRINT? THE MAJORY OF AMERINS BELIEVE THE UNTRY ISN’T READY
* gay president poll *
Earlier this month, Tmp retweeted an article about a survey, nducted by the gay social work Hor, that found 45 percent of gay male rponnts planned to vote for utned s survey was unscientific and shouldn’t be taken as predictive of voter rponse on Nov. In GLAAD’s poll, likely voters who intified as gay men favored Bin over Tmp 80 percent to 18.
ALMOST 70 PERCENT OF AMERINS OK WH GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE, POLL FDS
Gay women backed Bin 83 to 11, while non-cisgenr voters supported the former vice print 72 to, Tuday morng on Fox & Friends, the print's son Eric Tmp said the LGBT muny "e[s] out full force for my father every sgle day. A recent poll shows one more issue illtrative of this trend: Voters have bee much more acceptg of gay Amerins seekg the hight office the was a time when South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s sexualy — he is gay — would have ma him unelectable many parts of the recently as 2006, when Buttigieg was 24, most Amerins said they would be “very unfortable” or have “rervatns” about a gay person nng for has changed dramatilly.
Acrdg to a recent NBC-Wall Street Journal poll, nearly 70 percent of Amerins said they would be eher enthiastic about or fortable wh a ndidate who is gay or lbian. To put that perspective, 85 percent said they were enthiastic about or fortable wh a female Imse, spokman for the LGBTQ Victory Fund, a group that helps elect gay people to office, told the Fix that Amerins’ views on LGBTQ people polics have changed wh other cultural shifts. Acrdg to NBC, “While senrs are more likely to voice rervatns about gay ndidat, a majory (56 percent) now say they have no objectns.
POLL: MAJORY OF AMERINS ARE FORTABLE WH GAY PRINTIAL NDIDATE
”To those who have fought for equal rights for the LGBT muny for s — this year is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rts, a pivotal moment the gay rights movement — this change the public’s support is nsired progrs.
But others argue that should not be terpreted as a place of Gos, an opn wrer for The Washgton Post, wrote that gay ndidat seekg high offic still face very real challeng: “The ia that ’s not hard to be gay Ameri is ludicro. There’s been only one openly gay man elected ernor and no such senators (Tammy Baldw of Wisns is the chamber’s lone lbian, and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sema is bisexual), let alone print. ”Buttigieg is showg that a gay man n make a ser n for the princy.
” Two-thirds of LGBTQ voters say the rults of the 2020 printial electn have them feelg optimistic about the future; though 77% exprs ncern that the new Supreme Court will overturn marriage equalyIssu Impactg the LGBTQ Vote: COVID-19 rponse, healthre, racial jtice, followed by LGBTQ equalyCOVID-19 Rponse is the Number One Issue for LGBTQ Voters: 36% Face Mental Health Issu after COVID-19New York, NY – GLAAD, the world’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocy anizatn, released the fdgs of s 2020 Post-electn Poll of LGBTQ registered voters, cludg a phenomenal turnout of the LGBTQ vote, a surge of first-time LGBTQ voters, an overwhelmg vote for Print-elect Bin, wh vot motivated by three top issu urgently mandg a more robt rponse om our natn’s lears: COVID-19, healthre and racial jtice. 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.
MOST WOULD VOTE FOR GAY PRINT, NOT SO SURE OTHERS WOULD
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. 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.
ANALYSIS-TMP WOOS LGBT+ AMERINS AS POLLS HAND GAY VOTE TO BIN
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.