Los Angeles Times ran an article claiming that the U.S. is more ready for a black president than a woman president, citing a poll conducted by CNN. Of course, since it’s just an opinion poll, and on CNN no less, so the conclusions you draw from it is iffy at best. What I found was interesting were some of the comments left on the article. Such as this one posted by “Rocco.”
Wow. They polled 1600 Americans. That’s not enough to know. We’ll all know on election day when the Clinton/Obama ticket win.
Sure, it may be “only” 1600 people, but just because it’s a small number doesn’t mean it can’t be representative of a much greater population. The main problem is the sampling methods. Opinion polls just aren’t that great, especially since this particular poll only samples viewers of CNN.
And how about this comment left by “My 2 cents.”
I’m not ready for either. A woman would be too weak, plus the Arabs would just hate us more. As for a black, find me one country in the world ran by blacks that is worth a damn. Not going to.
Wow. Just Wow. I don’t even have anything to say to that completely ignorant comment.
It would be interesting to have a black person or a woman run for president of the U.S. Or perhaps the Bradley effect will come into play here? One of my co-workers that I talked to believes that most Americans, especially in more rural areas are still very against having either a black or female president. He’s probably right, and maybe all the people who said they’re cool with Obama or Clinton are just saying so because they don’t want to be labeled a racist.
