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Moderate Religious Tea Party Ethnic Females with Business Experience in ’16!
There’s a lot to unpack in the newest Gallup survey. For one thing, people seem to think that business experience is the best qualification for getting elected:
Four in five Americans (81%) say the U.S. would be better governed if more people with business and management experience were in political office.
That seems related to the total lack of business experience in our current president, who seems to display a total lack of competence. If 81% of Americans say that, some of them, at least, thought otherwise when they pulled the lever for Obama. Shutting the barn door, etc., etc. Still.
Then there’s this:
63% say the country would be better governed with more female political leaders — up slightly from 57% in 1995 and 2000.
Not sure I get this. We already have a female president. Her name is Valerie Jarrett.
Finally, here’s what people say about their ideal candidate:
Nearly six in 10 Americans say electing more political moderates would improve the way the country is governed, while fewer say this about political conservatives (47%) and political liberals (33%). Thirty-two percent believe the country would be governed better if more people backed by the Tea Party movement were in office, while more, 48%, believe it would be governed worse.
And also:
About half of Americans think the country would be better governed if more people who are religious (51%), and more racial and ethnic minorities (48%) were in office.
By a modest 11-point margin, 49% to 38%, Americans believe the U.S. would be governed better, rather than worse, if more people who had never held political office were elected.
So the ideal candidate is a churchgoing female former CEO Tea Party moderate who is possibly Asian or African-American or something “ethnic.”
Personally, I think that’s a recipe for crazytown. And it shows the limits of this kind of polling, in which people say “Yeah, sure” to every possible question. Because when you don’t have to make a specific choice, you end up choosing everything.
But it’s sort of a fun parlor game to try to match a candidate as closely as possible to this recipe.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, anyone?
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Sort of describes Mia Love, too, doesn’t it? Not a perfect fit, but close.
Seawriter
This is really wonderful. But it won’t fit on my bumper! I’ll have to get a bigger car.
It’s worse than crazytown. It demonstrates the effectiveness of the Left that so many Americans fall for identity politics nonsense. Oof. It’s just painful how we’ve lost common sense and national identity. Thank you NEA!
I think the country would be governed better if we elected more people who reflexively hang up on pollsters.
Ask a stupid question . . .
I like Nikki Haley and Mia Love, and as president and vice president they would be 1000% better than what we have. They would probably at least listen to advisers who are more knowledgeable.
“Four in five Americans (81%) say the U.S. would be better governed if more people with business and management experience were in political office.”
And Obama was elected…twice? Square that circle.
If only good old Condoleezza Rice had resigned as secretary of state and ran the NFL for a few years, she would of been the perfect Republican candidate per Gallop. You could even say she meet the never hold political office criteria because she has never been elected to anything.
It’s interesting that the category ‘Male Community Organizer with Mixed Ethnicity and Minimal Senate Experience’ didn’t get much of a margin.