Polls that ask whether or not individuals would vote for a black or a female tend to be heavily disregarded, as most people are not willing to consistently betray their biases.

Now there are two things to point out. A lot of times people “lie” (either consciously or non) about what they would do and project their real behavior based on other people. If you ask people what they will do and what others will do then for non-judgmental questions they tend to be similar, but for things that have a negative answer they don't. Since not being open enough to vote for a woman or black president simply for those reasons is seen as a negative, then the CNN poll might be more accurate than the one I posted (notice they have very similar numbers at the bottom as well and this was two years ago).

On the other hand, I think there is a lot of reverse thinking. I've read a lot of people say they know others that don't support Hillary or Barack because of the superficial reasons since they are convinced that the rest of the country would never vote for them. I would argue that you could make a case that racial and gender don't matter as much now as they used to in business and politics but that people's perceptions haven't changed to reflect this. In my opinion most sexism and racism is built on stereotyping behavior instead of believing that there is some sort of difference in genetic fortitude. A lot of the bigoted people I know like Obama and don't think anything of his skin color, and have black friends, they just assume that they won't like the black people they run into on average.

Of course they don't like the majority of the people they run into, but for some reason only point out the demographics when it's someone of a different race, so that's the racist part.

And count me in to call in on Mid Stream Radio today. Used to do Internet radio myself.