Oddly enough, it doesn't ask about what percentage would vote for a woman.

Probably for the best, feminist shrews would start screeching and demonstrating why a great many people wouldn't do it, and then drive the percentage even lower.

Feminism is its own worst enemy.

> Discuss.

• The Harper's Index has been recognized as a PC-tainted source of imaginary liberal datapoints for at least 25 years.

Amy:
"For a well-qualified atheist: 49

Percentage of Americans in a July poll who said they approve of God's job performance: 52"

Okay, if I have my math right, there has to be at least 1% of people who think God is doing a good job, but an atheist might do it better.

-Jut

> I don't like Hillary, and I would have voted for
> her over Obama in a hot second.

Confronted with precisely that choice in May 2008, I went with Obama, and stand by the choice. Obama is an infant, but Hillary is a monster.

Two Chicagoans.

"Confronted with precisely that choice in May 2008, I went with Obama, and stand by the choice. Obama is an infant, but Hillary is a monster.

Two Chicagoans."

In retrospect, it seems possible that almost anyone could have been better but Hillary is probably a female version of Richard Nixon.

It didn't really matter who won the election in 2008, I knew it was going to be bad economically, I just didn't realize that Obama would be capable of making it so much worse.

> Hillary is probably a female version of
> Richard Nixon.

Wish I'd said that

That seems a bit unfair to Nixon. He went to China, signed the ABM Treaty...

No way do I believe 2 out of 3 Americans would accept a gay President. I would, but I think in in the small minority, probably less than 1 in 3.

God's job performance? Oh my.... I don't even know what to say about that one.

Tom Waits already addressed that issue:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9mhsW5aWJM

Well qualified trumps anything else to me (now, not going to say I put as much thought into it in college). I'd vote gay, and I honestly don't know why their religious beliefs come into it at all-like the furor I've heard about with JFK being catholic-who cares?

If I were god, I'd do things differently, and the world would probably end as a result.

Obama is an infant, but Hillary is a monster. - Crid

An infant shaped by monsters.

He reminds me of those princes raised in privilege (to the extent of having another child kept around just to take their beatings for them).

When they ascended to the throne, most of them were helpless without a good executive (whom they generally failed to appreciate).

Many were arbitrarily cruel from lack of empathy. Note, they weren't intentionally cruel, they simply lacked the worldview to understand their actions in any context except the absolute privilege in which they were raised.

Their view (like Obama's) was always right because who would disagree with them?

Hillary is probably a female version of Richard Nixon. - Isabel1130

That seems a bit unfair to Nixon. He went to China, signed the ABM Treaty... - Martin (Ontario)

I'm with Isabel on this one.

While Nixon was a master at the chess game of foreign policy, his economic policies were disastrous (floating currency, wage and price controls, etc.).

His worst failings, however, were personal. Nixon's paranoia and psychoses grew worse with each passing year in office. An overtly hostile press and Teddy waiting in the wings didn't help.

Hillary (and now, it seems, Obama) share Nixon's tendency to obsess over what others are saying and keeping "enemies" at bay. This can be a mildly amusing tendency in a minor politician, but has dangerous repercussions in a president.

Percentage of Americans in a July poll who said they approve of God's job performance: 52

And what, does Harper imagine is God's job when asking if Americans approve of it?

...why their religious beliefs come into it at all-like the furor I've heard about with JFK being catholic-who cares?

In those days people still believed a Catholic's first fealty was to the Pope and that a Catholic president would put his obedience to the Pope before his adherence to the Constitution or loyalty to the country.

If that sounds medieval, it is. Very old English law forbids the British king from being or marrying a Catholic.

makes me wonder what people think of their own "job" performance, and how they rate others.

also wondering exactly how they quantify all that... anyone got a link to job qualifications to be "God"?

OTOH, the whole "well qualified" thing... yeah, lotsa people look good on paper... I'm sure Hoover did as well. I could care less what their orientation is.

Discuss? I'll make it brief. No homosexual or atheist will ever be a serious candidate for president while we're alive.

And there is no god, of any kind...

How does Harper's gather its data? From its audience, or do they use a professional polling organization to pull scientific samples? I'm not being snide; I don't actually know.

As for the results in the post -- the answers may be reasonable, given that there's a difference between what people say they'll do and what they actually do. All but the last question, that is; as other above have pointed out, it doesn't appear to mean much of anything.

I'll vote for the candidate who grabs the nearest baby to use as a human shield against a crazed lone gunman.

We've got lots of babies but only so many narcissistic sociopaths backed by corporate interests who are ready to lead the country into its final descent.

And how many of them have really good hair, to boot?

The babies, not the sociopathic politicians, I mean.

His worst failings, however, were personal. Nixon's paranoia and psychoses grew worse with each passing year in office

That wasnt his fault, it was the Silence

> No homosexual or atheist will ever be a serious
> candidate for president while we're alive.

How will you ever know?

How many homosexuals have we had in the office already?

How many atheists?

And please tell, for the love of God, how many of those motherfuckers were "serious"?

Besides, you make it sound like us being alive is the problem... To which the Framers would no doubt respond, Never!

Sadly crid, roger is probably right.

Although I find it amazing how easily the 'values' voters will forgive hypocritical politicans how break damn near every commandment had troll for gay sex, but are at the same time completly unwilling to entrtain the notion of supporting an open and out (and therfore an unethical/immoral) athiest or gay person

Apparenly this thread is clear of Whovians

The difference between Hillary and Obama?

McCain would have beaten Hillary.