A Hearst Newspapers/Siena College Poll in February 2006 showed that 64% said the US was ready for a woman president. In February 2005, asked the same questions, 62% of respondents thought that the US was ready for a woman president, and 81% said they would be willing vote for a woman themselves.

An October WNBC/Marist Poll showed that 26% of voters would be likely to support a woman candidate for president from either major party, while 28%  would not be likely to support a woman presidential candidate from either party.  For 25%, the only woman candidate likely to gain their support would be a Democrat, while only a Republican woman would draw the votes of 21%

A poll taken in September 2005 by Gallup for CNN/USA Today found that nearly half of Americans,46%, thought the United States would have a female president within the next 10 years, and an additional 41% said within the next 10 to 25 years.

A poll conducted in September 2005 by Roper Public Affairs for the White House Project found that a large majority of Americans (79%) were comfortable with the idea of a woman president. The study also asked about comfort levels with women in other high-level positions and found even larger majorities comfortable with a woman as vice president (84%) and Supreme Court justice (90%).

According to a Rasmussen Poll in April 2005, 72% of Americans said they would be willing to vote for a woman for president, but only 49% thought their family, friends and co-workers would vote for a woman candidate.

Over the years, Gallup Polls have shown an increased acceptance of the concept of a female presidential candidate. In May-June 2003, 87% of Americans said they would vote for a woman if their party nominated a qualified one for president, down slightly from 1999, but overwhelmingly higher than when Gallup first asked the question in 1937.

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