White males for Hillary

Within the last four days, I've heard four white males say in conversation, without segue or prompting, that it's time we had a female president. Two were Republicans who brought up the subject by saying (paraphrase) "hey you know what - I will vote for Hillary if she runs. We need to try something different," and that the next president should be a woman.

The other two white men are Democrats who simply said its about bloody time we had a female CIC. One of the Democrats also said "the problem isn't that men won't vote for a woman, it's women who won't."

After brief admission that as a woman I'm aware we have intra-gender destroy-our-own tendencies, I had to laugh at this member of my sample set. Laying back on the couch, reading a book, scratching his belly, he failed to see the irony as his comments were played back to him, summarized (by me) to highlight deflection of any responsibility: "we guys have wanted a chick prez for years, we've just been waiting fer youze broads to come around already!"

Survey results*

Republican age: 33	Voted for Bush in 2004	Will vote for Hillary Condi Rice is 2nd choice Wants a woman president in 2008
Republican age: early 50s	Left president slot blank in 2004, both candidates disappointed him.	Wanted to vote Hillary in 2004 Hopes to vote for her in 2008.
Democrat age: 41	Voted for Kerry/Edwards in 2004	America is overdue for a woman president If it weren't for women, we'd have elected one prez by now
Curmudgeon age: old	(Most likely) voted for Kerry/Edwards in 2004, but was unhappy doing so.	"It seems wrong that we've never had even one woman president." (link)

*Participants were not selected by survey taker, nor were they prompted with survey questions. As is their way, they simply offered this information to any taker within earshot.