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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Neither Dog nor Dog Catcher Saturday, February 17, 2007 Neither Dog nor Dog Catcher As the old saying goes, "He couldn't even be elected dog catcher." I'm not real clear on what this means; are dog catchers even elected? Is that really the worst job you can think of? Why not sewage maintenence technician? At any rate, that's the saying people use for unelectable people, and as this recent US Gallup poll shows, it still applies most strongly to atheists. (I had a table here, but blogger won't accept it without mangling the HTML, so forgive the crappy layout.) If your party nominated a well-qualified Candidate For President in 2008 who was _______, would you vote for that person? Catholic: 95% yes, 4% no. Black: 94% yes, 4% no. Jewish: 92% yes, 7% no. A woman: 88% yes, 11% no. Hispanic: 87% yes, 12% no. Mormon: 72% yes, 24% no. Married for the third time: 67% yes, 30% no. 72 years old: 57% yes, 42% no. A homosexual: 55% yes, 43% no. An atheist: 45% yes, 53% no. Lots of these are kinda trick questions: McCain will be 72, Clinton's a woman, Obama's a black, one of the leading Republicans is a Mormon, and Guliani is on his third marrriage. I wonder how many of the people replying realized that. Furthermore, I'm skeptical about the inclusion in lots of these figures, since people are more open and less racial in polls than in real life (as the current 95%+ white/male/Christian demographic of senators/congressmen/presidents demonstrates). One thing I don't doubt at al though is that atheists are still furthest down on the ladder. I guess it's a good sign that gays are no longer the least-electable group in the US, and those figures might even be accurate; there are a few openly-gay national politicians, but none who are openly atheistic. As I clumsily attempted to allude to in the post title, you've got to be a god catcher to be a dog catcher, and most Americans still think religious faith is important in a position of national leadership, even as fewer and fewer of us retain it in our own lives. Labels: atheism, politics Posted by: Flux # 10:11 AM Comments: Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2012

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