Overheard at a Bob Evans restaurant in Charleston, WV just before the 2008 primary election: "I might vote for a n****r for President, but I'm never going to vote for a woman." (I moved out of WV in December 2008, not exactly related but not wholly unrelated.)
MAC: but a female leader? It's just...Doesn't sit well with me, like, un-American, maybe?
FRANK: It's un-American
DENNIS: Thing is, is like, we had a vote in America.
MAC: We almost had one
DENNIS: and then America was like, "Mm..."
FRANK: No women.
MAC: We could *not* have been more clear about it.
There were really good reasons to prefer Obama to Clinton in 2008, though I think she'd have performed better in office; Obama chickened out too often.
But 2016? I'm fine voting for a clown*, just not That Evil Clown.
*Wavy Gravy: "Nobody for President! Nobody's telling the truth!"
There are some on the left who voted for a woman for president before you all did. Jill Stein in 2012. 2016 as well! I look forwarding to doing so a third time this November.
