The Gallup Poll conducted an interesting study that asked Americans how comfortable they are electing a president with certain characteristics. The results:

• 95% would vote for a Catholic
  (+60% since ‘37)
• 94% Black
  (+57% since ‘58)
• 92% Jewish
  (+46% since ‘37)
• 88% A woman
  (+55% since ‘37)
• 87% Hispanic
• 72% Mormon
  (-3% since ‘67)
• 67% Married for the third time
• 57% 72 years of age
• 55% A homosexual
  (+29% since ‘78)
• 45% An atheist
  (+27% since ‘58)

2008 Presidential Candidates:

• Mayor Rudy Giuliani is Catholic and has been divorced three times.
• Illinois Senator Barack Obama is black.
• New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is a woman.
• Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is a Mormon.
• Arizona Senator John McCain will be 72 years old at the time of the election.

[via Outside the Beltway]