If Sanders wasn't a socialist, he wouldn't even be running.
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?
