A new poll from American University shows that voters supported women candidates in the 2018 midterms because of the qualities that they were perceived to have, such as a willingness to compromise in order to achieve desired goals. Mallory Newall, research director at Ipsos Public Affairs, told Hill.TV: “What was really striking to me about…
Election exit polls always tell important stories. This year, however, those stories may be especially important for what they can tell us about the 2020 race for president. All of the votes from last Tuesday haven’t even been counted yet, but already people are turning their attention to the 2020 election. Top experts say there…
The 2018 midterm elections will be remembered as The Year of the Woman in more ways than one. Certainly a major factor is that record numbers of women voters in urban and suburban areas gave control of the House of Representatives to the Democrats. Also, on Tuesday, 185 Democratic women and 52 Republican women ran…
Conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin, a longtime Republican, warned her party on Tuesday that Donald Trump has “unleashed a pink resistance that will transform American politics forever.” ‘Blue wave’ or ‘left-wing mob’? Anti-Trump fervor fuels a new movement aimed squarely at winning elections. https://t.co/G1qqP6LwPB neither: the pink resistance https://t.co/JYKgRqhK3S — Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 16, 2018…
Donald Trump’s election has clearly pushed independent and Democratic women into action, resulting in record numbers of women running for office, and huge numbers of women doing political organizing and becoming activists for the first time. It is possible that Trump and the Republican are not alienating just left-leaning and independent women voters though. They may…
Advocates for sexual assault survivors and women’s rights have been energized by the fight against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Now that the fight is over they are focusing their energy on the November midterm elections. “Mobilized against Kavanaugh, women’s groups turn energy toward to midterms” Mobilized against Kavanaugh, women's groups turn energy…
When Democrat Ralph Northam was elected as the Governor of Virginia, the election results highlighted a very powerful but as yet under-utilized political force: single women . In cruising to a surprisingly easy victory Northam received an astounding 77 percent of the votes of unmarried women. And although these women make up 26 percent of…
Clinton leads by 9 points nationally and a whopping 19 points among women.