Nominating a woman or person of color vs. nominating "the best person."

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85. Thank you for the reasonable response. I admitted in my post that I was extrapolating

from the 538 article. The justification is in that article, ... so yes I made it up but not from "thin air".

Turns out that 538 cited the same poll you did, but they included the breakdown by party and conservative/moderate/liberal.

From the poll ...

But many liberal Democrats find the idea of a woman candidate appealing: 40% of liberal Democrats say they would be more likely to support a female presidential candidate, nearly double the share of conservative and moderate Democrats (23%). Among Republicans, about as many would be less likely (15%) as more likely (10%) to support a woman candidate; 74% of Republicans say it wouldn’t matter.

Having only seen the negatives from the 538 article, that's where I got the negative for being female. Liberal democrats may have skewed the overall results especially as any true liberal democrat will vote for a Democratic candidate, male or female. It's the more marginal Dem voters that are less likely to vote for a woman. Also, in 2014 the idea of a Clinton candidacy was a hot topic.

Check out this poll ... https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-you-more-likely-to-vote-for-a-woman-or-a-man/

All but one demographic group is less likely to vote for a woman.