Atheists becoming less unpopular?

[Brian37]

For context this was written in 2015.  You might find a far less favorable position of a Muslim president among American citizens today than you did then.  
Same with socialism.  It may have gotten a boost.

Additionally, the question itself needs to be accounted for.  It says would you vote for X if they were in your party and were otherwise qualified.
I.e. - The decision really being made is -- vote for a Black republican or vote for a Democrat.  As you learn to hate democrats more and more, a black Republican starts to look more and more like the lesser of two evils.

One thing this poll inadvertently tracks isn't how accepting the respondent is of someones race or religious beliefs, but instead how bitter they are about the opposition party.
A good follow up question to this poll would be "how would you feel about having a ____ president?"

If you found the 25% of responses show that people would be "very displeased" with a black president, then you may start to wonder how much people are actually affirming a black president in the first question, and how much they are simply weighing the terribleness of black people with the terribleness of the opposition party.

**I don't think 25% of people would respond with very displeased.  I am not here to say "yeah but the country is still racist" or anything like that.  All I am trying to do here is show that the poll itself doesn't really accomplish what it seems to have set out to do.

I really don't care when this article was written. Power shifts over time, attitudes shift over time, but one thing that remains the same is our species is still subject to the same ability to be compassionate or cruel. 

This austerity push is global, even in China I heard last year on CSPAN  covering the Chinese PM, "Now is not the time to tax the rich". As much as we bitch here as liberals about the mistreatment of minorities, it is still harder for an American to move to China and fit in. 

What is important to me is that more and more humans see each other as individuals not labels. I still today would vote for our Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison before I would vote for Trump. I would NOT vote for Paul Ryan who loves the economics of the atheist version "Ann Coulter"Ayn Rand. 

Our species, and I include atheists too, unfortunately think local and short term on average. Sagan is what more humans need to accept, in his Pale Blue Dot speech. 

My loyalty is to my species stability, not to a club not even to others whom call themselves atheists.