First woman President

[*PhilHos*]

(04-18-2018, 12:40 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I have a friend who claims that the first woman President of the US will have to be a Republican.  This is because the more conservative Republicans are the ones who would be most opposed to a woman President based only on her gender, but they would be more willing to vote for  female Republican than a male Democrat.  Basically she claims that the female Republican candidate would already be over the "gender hurdle".

I think this argument makes some sense, but she also said the same thing about our first Black President.  However she claims she was only "half wrong" about Obama being our first black President.  

Thoughts?

This is not meant to be about specific candidates but you can go there if you want.

I think it goes both ways. I think more Democrats would vote for a female Democrat than a male Republican and I think more Republicans would vote for a female Republican than a male Democrat. But, I also believe that Democrats would more likely vote for woman based only on her gender and not on her policies and whatnot.