In all, 56% of Americans and 68% of likely Democratic primary voters say the nation is ready to elect a woman as president, 7 percentage points lower for each than six months ago.
Though a majority of Americans say the USA is ready to elect a female president, that number has dropped over the past six months, a national USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll shows – a sobering finding for Democratic presidential hopefuls Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar as the nominating seasonSeventy-one percent say they personally would be comfortable with a female president, but just 33% say their neighbors would be – a telling and perhaps more candid measure, and one that had dipped by 4...
"I like Amy Klobuchar; I like Elizabeth Warren. I'm just not sure if they can beat ," says Sharon O'Donnell, 69, a Democrat and retired math professor in Chicago who participated in the survey. She worries that voters have trouble conceptualizing a female president because it's unfamiliar."It's this idea, 'Oh, who would be the first lady if it was a woman?' That's part of it.
In a Suffolk University/USA TODAY Poll this month, likely Democratic caucusgoers overwhelmingly chose"defeating Donald Trump" as the most important issue affecting their vote, more than health care, climate change or any other concerns.“Our latest USA TODAY/Ipsos poll shows that Americans are more pessimistic about the country being ready for a woman president compared to six months ago,” says Cliff Young, president of research company Ipsos.
By an overwhelming 14-1, both Americans in general and likely Democratic primary voters in particular say being older than 75 makes a candidate less appealing rather than more appealing. Biden is 77, and Sanders is 78. For a candidate who is a democratic socialist,"it depends on how far you want to go in spending other people's money," says Logan Hutchison, 65, a retiree in Fort Madison, Iowa, who is an independent."They don't want somebody to take 90% of their money and give it to somebody who isn't really trying. These freebies aren't free. The taxpayer is paying for it."
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