Presidential Newbies?

In the 2008 election, there are many potential “firsts” that may be running for presidency. These include a woman, an African-American, a Hispanic, a Mormon, and a man who would be the oldest person to assume presidency in the United States. The Democrats running are Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Bill Richardson. The Republicans are Mitt Romney and John McCain. When taking a Gallup poll, eleven percent of voters said that they would not vote for a woman. Five percent of voters would not vote for an African-American, and twenty-four percent would not vote for a Mormon. Eighty-seven percent of voters said that they would vote for a Hispanic. Forty-two percent claimed that they would not vote for a man who will be seventy-two when running for president, which McCain will. The number of those willing to vote for a woman candidate has decreased in the past years. In 1999, ninety-two percent of Americans were willing to vote for a woman; Now that number has decreased to eighty-eight percent.
The Gallup poll has been taken since 1937. That year, it took a poll of the willingness to vote for a woman candidate, which turned out to be thirty-three percent. In 1955, it increased to fifty-two percent. In 1958, the Gallup poll took a poll on the willingness of Americans to vote for African-Americans, which turned out to be thirty-seven percent. For years, voters claimed that they would rather vote for a woman than an African-American, but that changed in the late 1960s.