In a poll done before the John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, the Pew Research Center released an 'experiment' today that found that Republicans are significantly less likely to vote for a Congressional candidate who is a mother of young children than one who is a father of young children. Twenty-one percent they would support a women candidate with young children while 31 percent supported a man with the exact same credentials and family situation.
The researchers did not ask the question directly. Instead they created hypothetical candidates and asked about them.
They note that Democrats were the opposite of Republicans: "significantly more likely to vote for a candidate for Congress who is the mother of small children than to support an identical candidate who is the father of small children (33% vs. 24%). Democratic women in particular more strongly supported Ann the mother than Andrew the father (36% vs. 19%). Among Democratic men, neither gender nor parenthood made a difference."
The survey was conducted mid-June to mid-July.
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