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Jo Ann Emerson entered the House of Representatives in 1997 as the first and, so far, only woman (re)elected as neither a Democrat nor a Republican from any state to either chamber of Congress. [18] She won two elections scheduled on November 5, 1996 : a special election to fill out the remainder of her husband's term in the 104th Congress ...
In 2020, every single Republican who flipped a Democratic House seat was either a woman, veteran or minority. Republicans look to women, veterans and minorities in battle for House Skip to main ...
A Republican running for Congress in Virginia has gone viral after sharing what appears to be family photos online — as it was revealed the woman and three girls he was posing with were his ...
A majority of women have supported the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1996. In all but one of those races, men backed the Republican.
The Wish List was established in 1992 following an organizing effort in December, 1991, led by Lynn Shapiro who became the Executive Director. [3] Glenda Greenwald, who was president of the PAC, was among the women activists predicting that 1992 would be the Year of the Woman, and she argued that the GOP was not sufficiently funding women candidates. [4]
She is to date the last Republican to serve Arizona in the U.S. Senate. McSally served in the United States Air Force from 1988 to 2010, achieving the rank of colonel. She is the first U.S. woman to fly in combat and also the first to command a fighter squadron. In 2001, McSally successfully sued the United States Department of Defense in ...
A gender gap in voting typically refers to the difference in the percentage of men and women who vote for a particular candidate. [1] It is calculated by subtracting the percentage of women supporting a candidate from the percentage of men supporting a candidate (e.g., if 55 percent of men support a candidate and 44 percent of women support the same candidate, there is an 11-point gender gap).
Meanwhile in Arizona, Republican men led the way among new early voters. Between Oct. 15 and 28, that demographic cast 19,901 ballots, according to NBC. For Republican women, the number was 16,515.