{"id":1135,"date":"2007-02-16T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/02\/16\/im-running-anyway\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T00:00:28","slug":"im-running-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/im-running-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Running Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com\/archives\/2007\/02\/usa_todaygallup_1.html\">Gallup<\/a> poll, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2007\/2\/16\/154311\/206\">Daily Kos<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If your party nominated a well-qualified Candidate For WH &#8217;08 who was <em>_<\/em>, would you vote for that person?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><tt> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Yes &nbsp; No &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Catholic &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;95% &nbsp;4% &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Black &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 94 &nbsp; 5 &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>Jewish &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;92 &nbsp; 7 &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A woman &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 88 &nbsp;11 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>Hispanic &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;87 &nbsp;12 &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mormon &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;72 &nbsp;24 &nbsp;<br \/>\n<br \/>Married for third time &nbsp; &nbsp;67 &nbsp;30 &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>72 years old &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;57 &nbsp;42<br \/>\n<br \/>A homosexual &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;55 &nbsp;43 &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An atheist &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;45 &nbsp;53<\/p>\n<p><\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/12\/13\/hostility-to-atheists\/\">new<\/a>, of course.<\/p>\n<p>But what if the race were between an atheist and a black Mormon lesbian, huh?  What then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Gallup poll, via Daily Kos: If your party nominated a well-qualified Candidate For WH &#8217;08 who was _, would you vote for that person? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Yes &nbsp; No &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Catholic &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}