NYT: Bernie Sanders has a "non-white problem"

[Maxwell]

Maybe Sander's biggest problem is that he strongly selfidentify as a socialist?

According to Gallup's most recent numbers released today, only 47% of US adults say that they would even be willing to consider voting for a socialist. This is below every single denomation tested, including atheist (58%), Muslim (60%), evangelical Christian (surprisingly only 73%!), gay or lesbian (74%), Mormon (81%), Jewish (91%), Hispanic (91%), black (92%), woman (92%) and Catholic (93%). In other words, a socialist presidential candidate is the only one which not even a majority of American voters would be open to consider. What's perhaps just as bad for Sanders: Only 28% of selfproclaimed protestants would be willing to vote for a socialist.

Actually, less people would be willing to vote for a socialist today than the percentage who were willing to vote for a black or female candidate in 1960, the year when the first Catholic president was elected.

Strange they didn't ask for attitude towards Asian, Native American or biracial/multiracial candidates.

More here: http://www.gallup.com/poll/183791/support-nontraditional-candidates-varies-religion.aspx?utm_source=Politics&utm_medium=newsfeed&utm_campaign=tiles

By the way, I wonder what percentage would be willing to support a black, female, Hispanic, socialistic atheist candidate for president?

Sanders is about as socialist as the guy who got elected 4 times. If he were nominated, people would listen to his positions and the % of Americans willing to vote for a "socialist" would skyrocket faster than the % of wealth going to the richest 1%.

In Vermont.