{"id":592,"date":"2005-10-13T02:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-13T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=592"},"modified":"2005-10-13T02:16:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-13T02:16:00","slug":"could-the-us-elect-a-female-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Could the US elect a female president?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unusually nuanced and intelligent discussion of the whole issue and its history (not just about Hillary), from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2005-10-10-woman-president_x.htm\">USA Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[In 1937] two-thirds of Americans said they wouldn&#8217;t vote for a woman for president. By the 1950s, a narrow majority said they would. In 1984, when Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale chose Ferraro as his running mate, the public by more than 4-to-1 said they would vote for a woman. <\/p>\n<p>The trend toward increasing acceptance had stalled by 1987, though. For the past two decades, views have stayed about the same, [but]&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the 86% who said they would vote for a woman probably didn&#8217;t mean it, says Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Poll at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Those surveyed &#8220;feel some social pressure to say the &#8216;acceptable&#8217; response,&#8221; he says, and may want to reflect the nation&#8217;s aspirations as a land of opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>The 34% who said &#8220;most of my neighbors&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t vote for a female president may have given a more candid measure of the public&#8217;s views.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusually nuanced and intelligent discussion of the whole issue and its history (not just about Hillary), from USA Today. &#8220;[In 1937] two-thirds of Americans said they wouldn&#8217;t vote for a woman for president. By the 1950s, a narrow majority said they would. In 1984, when Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale chose Ferraro as his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalie-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}