Bwah? Is this real?
More than six in ten U.S. voters say they could support an openly gay candidate for president of the United States, and 70% say they’d support the appointment of an openly gay cabinet secretary, according to a new nationwide poll from Zogby International.
Sixty-six percent of poll respondents said they could support an openly gay vice-presidential candidate, while 69% said a gay candidate for U.S. Senate could get their vote. The poll of 1,089 adults was conducted August 13 to 15 for the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute (GLLI), a non-partisan leadership development organization. [Victory Fund]
There has got to be more to the demographics of this poll. We’re talking about an electorate that worries about a candidate’s income, what kind of underwear they wear, their wife’s job, the number of houses they own… and they think that 60% of Americans would vote for a gay president?
Kind of makes you wonder: it’s okay to elect a gay person to the highest office in the country, but dammit — they shouldn’t be allowed to marry. Ever.
