Absolutely--and the women you were talking to certainly proved it--rudely. I mean, whether Sarah Palin looks like she should be carrying a plate of cookies or not really doesn't matter (and hey, cookies are great!). Nobody who was going to vote for Hilary would vote for her just because she's a woman--they have completely different beliefs on everything. And plenty of people who are planning to vote for Obama would certainly not vote for some other black person just because he was black. Assuming this is how it works is completely dismissing the actual concerns of the voters in question, as if they don't really care about whatever policies they claimed they liked in one candidate. (And wasn't this proven back in the 80s when Geraldine Ferraro was running? Women didn't all vote for her as vp just because she was a woman.)
Of course with millions of voters there are going to be people who do react to certain things about a candidate. I've seen individuals say to reporters they wouldn't vote for a black man. But with any individual person they're going to have a lot of preferences and you don't know what's going to take a priority. I love the idea of having a woman president. If that was the only difference between candidates I probably would vote woman. But there are other things that were more important to me.
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Date: 2008-10-18 02:54 pm (UTC)Of course with millions of voters there are going to be people who do react to certain things about a candidate. I've seen individuals say to reporters they wouldn't vote for a black man. But with any individual person they're going to have a lot of preferences and you don't know what's going to take a priority. I love the idea of having a woman president. If that was the only difference between candidates I probably would vote woman. But there are other things that were more important to me.