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Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, served as the 67th United States Secretary of State (2009–2013), United States Senator from New York (2001–2009), and First Lady of the United States (1993–2001). She was also a candidate in the 2008 and 2016 Democratic presidential primaries.
2009 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 3. During this off-year election , the only seats up for election in the United States Congress were special elections held throughout the year.
Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith was a candidate for the Republican Party nomination in 1964, becoming the first woman to seek the nomination of a major party for president. She qualified for the ballot in six state primaries and finished second in the Illinois primary with 25% of the vote.
Since then, 19 presidential elections have occurred in which a candidate was elected or reelected without gaining a majority of the popular vote. [4] Since the 1988 election , the popular vote of presidential elections was decided by single-digit margins, the longest streak of close-election results since states began popularly electing ...
The election of the president and for vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College.
Filing to appear on South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary ballot closed Tuesday, and one notable name will be left out of the First in the South GOP contest.
Although Clinton was the 25th woman to run for U.S. president, [115] she was the first female candidate to have held a highly probable chance of winning the nomination of a major party, and the presidential election. [116] She was also the first woman to be an American presidential candidate in every primary and caucus in every state. [117]
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