Go, ladies, go! I—we all—need you. The future is female!
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Boy. Roy Moore is really going to be disgusted with this. I'm surprised he hasn't said that women shouldn't be allowed to vote. But he's gotten trump's endorsement. Birds of a feather....
This 69 year-old male regards this as one of the most hopeful developments in year. Please press on!
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I wish Debbie Wesson Gibson were running against Roy Moore for the vacant senate seat in Alabama. Maybe then her accusations would be taken seriously by the voters there who might hold Moore accountable for his predatory history with underage girls.
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We need you Thanks for willing to serve justice.
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We're taking over. Women, people of color and allies. No more angry, scared white men telling us what to do and how to live our lives.
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If you can, write a check to these women, or to Emily's list.
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Stand up. Stand out. Women can save our country!
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Women generally would do a better job than most men and we need to have at least half of Congress that are women.
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May the best women run, may the best person win.
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I am glad they are challenging long-shot districts. Always run a candidate so at east your message gets out there, however minimally.
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I'm running. Can't wait.
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Hmm. I have mixed feelings about this. First, it shouldn't take the election of a misogynist troll to light a fire under the feet of women to take control of their political destinies. 2. Women were generally on board with an admittedly flawed female candidate on November 8, 2016, but the majority of white women decided that the worst candidate in American presidential history was the better option. What does that say about the way that white women choose to prioritize their political/social allegiances? Alabama will be their next test and I expect for them to fail again.
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A backlash must be ever vigilant to avoid becoming the mirror image of its nemesis.
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There is a long list of men in Utah, Iowa, Texas and many other states that need to be replaced by women. And men that seek reform and honesty in government need to give them their support to get elected.
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So good to read this. Inspiring. Can’t wait for everyone to meet Kim Olson. https://kimolson4txag.com
It is my hope that a new class of politicians rise out of this meltdown, and that they are led by women. They can surely do no worse than the people that have gotten us to this point. Having said all of the above, are voters ready to embrace an America that is moving forward to drive justice, equality, and prosperity for all, or are they looking to go back to the 1950's.
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Well, here's hoping. But these women must figure out a route to independence from voting for the corporations/1% who fund campaigns, else they'll just fold themselves into the currently ineffectual Democratic Party - a party which does not stand for the working and middle classes, unfortunately.
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Go ladies go. And let's not forget that women got the right to vote in 1920. That took a long time in coming. We must all vote and encourage everyone who is eligible to vote.
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A powerful force yet to be fully unleashed. The promise of the 19th amendment finally coming to fruition.
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Let us hope that this energy continues whether or not Trump is president. It would be tragic if Trump's impeachment or resignation took the wind out of the sails of a movement that should be occurring regardless.
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Hooray for women. Hopefully and Senate and House with 50/50 men/women will be 10 time better, even if half of the ladies are Republicans. As a husband of a professional and the father of two professional daughters, I believe women generally are more thoughtful and considerate of all things before making important decisions. We definitely need more of those qualities in our government.
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Run, ladies, run! And more importantly, VOTE, ladies, VOTE! No more sitting out elections and counting on the right thing to be done.
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I'm curious why Mai-Khanh Tran is not referred to us "Dr. Tran" in this article since she is a practicing physician.
According to FAQs on Syle: "Dr. should be used in all references for physicians, dentists and veterinarians whose practice is their primary current occupation, or who work in a closely related field, like medical writing, research or pharmaceutical manufacturing."
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That's a perfect example of casual sexism. You can bet that Dr. Tran worked darn hard to become a pediatrician, and if she had been a man, using "Dr." before her name would have been a given. So unless she asked specifically to not be referred to as "Dr. Tran," what else is to be assumed but that women aren't worthy of the honorific?
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Maintenance dan here, asked carpenter jack about this and said don't know let me ask engineer bill engineer bill then asked sous chef Carey but they didn't know so bridge builder Sivan was dumb founded as well!
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I went to the Women's March in NYC in January and remember thinking I hope this feeling doesn't fade. Great to know it hasn't!
Let's vote these clowns out and fill the seats with women.
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as I said to the board at the recent AGM of one of Australia's largest companies 'good to see 5 women on the board - More Please !'
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From now on, with the exception of clearly unqualified women (eg. Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnell), I am ONLY going to vote for female candidates. That I'm even having this thought is shocking to me: I have never voted along any identity marker such as ethnicity, gender, race, or party affiliation. Sadly, I have concluded that childish, egotistic, misogynistic, and criminal male behavior will continue until there is a sufficient number of women (i.e. >50%) in a position of power to put an end to it.
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Michelle Bachmann? Sarah Palin? What makes you think all women are not childish, egotistic, misogynistic, and criminal? Vote for good people. Period.
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Fantastically good developments. This cannot be overstated as one of the silver linings in a very dark orange cloud. I've always stated that trump is a hellish lesson America still needed to learn: motivating women to political action is perhaps the reason God let trump happen. But women must stick with it permanently.
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Thank you, to all the women of courage; to women who have been elected and are serving now; thanks to the women leaders of other countries (where voters realized women could lead, a long time ago); thank you to Anita Hill; to Melissa McCarthy and Tina Fey, who raised issues with comedy; to everyone who said "Me Too" and everyone who marched last winter, and everyone who wore the pink hats. And thanks to all the women in every generation, who have been harassed, stomped or shoved aside, who earned less and were generally treated like little girls by powerful creeps--and did not give up. All we really have to do, ladies, is work together. Ready?
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Great news for us women and for our country. We need politicians who are empathetic, fearless, and respectful of their fellow human beings...women fit this and more. Cathy Myers is running for against Paul Ryan. She's a teacher, union leader, school board member, and a fearless and successful leader. She listens, learns, calls her small donors directly, and can definitely take on Paul Ryan. Please consider learning more about her.
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The problem for women running for office is that they are playing a mans game. That's where Hillary went wrong, becoming a warmonger and corporatist. Women need to reinvent the system, from the bottom up, especially in light of climate change.
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This is a good thing, but let us not forget, let us never forget, that despite everything we knew about Trump, 53% of White women voted for him for the Presidency. ditto the Republican majorities in the Senate, House, Governors and local legislatures. Absolutely wonderful that more women are running for office, but that does not mean that there will be the type of reaction from women in the voting booths that this article seems to indicate.
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Wasn’t that number 53% of the white women who actually VOTED, not 53% of the white women in this country? The situation is dire, but the main issue is that more women need to vote, period.
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You go girl! . . . seems appropriately on topic.
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I am Woman. Hear me roar!
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Hope.
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Republican women might know what it's like to be harassed, but that's damage they're apparently willing to take for male approval. They are despicable.
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You think you could've had a woman report this story, dudes?
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Actually, I think it is great that a man reported this. This movement shouldn't just be women for women, but women AND men for women.
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Uh, huh. And all along you thought this #metoo thing was not about politics, that they had some "higher purpose" in mind.
Come on RichD, if you have something to say, have the honesty to say it. Oh I forgot you're a conservative, so honesty is not in your list of achievements.
Shout out to Elissa Slotkin (D), running for Congress in Michigan 8th Congressional District. The incumbent is on the Ways and Means committee and completely owned by Paul Ryan.
What we need to get Elissa and others elected is turnout. America, get off your seat and vote!!!
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All I can say is "HURRAH" and "IT'S ABOUT TIME ".
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President Obama says women are our only hope, men seem to be getting into trouble. But be warned women, better read up this story of how NOT TO operate
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donna-brazile-dnc-consultants-clint...
Do not trust high paid consultants, they manipulate our brains, put thoughts in our heads, even falsehoods. Even NYT was gullible. PLease read.
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Finally, true citizen legislators. It took the election of a lying Republican to get people scared enough to run for office. The only reason the fat clown won in 2016 is because so many Americans are fed up with the McConnells of Washington and wanted to vote for the outsider with the mistaken belief that things could not get any worse.
Wrong.
March, register, vote in 2018. Vote against greed and for America. Elect the caring novice rather than the grizzled grifters of the GOP.
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In the last year, our (Raleigh NC) small and graying League of Women Voters Chapter has DOUBLED in size. Our new members are fed up with "politics as usual", are much younger than our vintage members... and are very energetic and enthusiastic. We welcome them with open arms!
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People enjoy outrage and patting themselves on the back. Politics is vastly more complicated. Getting money and allocating it is a supremely difficult task. Furthermore, thorny issues such as the Middle East, the economy, affirmative action, immigration, and climate change can't be handled so easily. Sexism and racism are feel good issues in that most sane people are not racist and not sexist and therefore can feel good about not being so. Same with homophobia. But taxes and immigration are much tougher issues. I see myself as a liberal, but I find myself getting conservative about taxation (I work VERY hard for my money!). Social issues are often very clear cut: Homophobia is bad. Gay marriage is great. Women have a right to abortion. Fiscal issues and issues involving foreign policy are way more complex, I think. To my mind, nobody, male or female, can solve the riddles of the Middle East or Korea.
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Rich guy, I don’t blame you wanting to keep some of your money but do you even think about those who work hard and can barely make it until the end of the month? I was a teacher. I am not rich but am comfortably well off. I have good health insurance and don’t have to worry that I can’t make it to the end of the month. I care about those who have little to nothing and if my taxes have to be higher, I will be okay. You should be more than ok but this is the era of greed so why would your comment surprise me.
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As an active member of the National Women's Political Caucus in the 1980's and 1990's at the NYS and local level, I am so pleased to read about these women. This is what my Caucus sisters and I worked to achieve...the active participation of women at all levels of elected and appointed government. We are indebted to the women who broke our early barriers. Remember, we stand on their shoulders so we can see our future and that of our younger generation.
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As it is doubtful that women could do any worse than some of the people currently in office (like Louis Gomert of Texas and Steven King of Iowa, to name just two), so the women should just go for it.
But let's be clear; as best as I can tell, Michelle Bachmann is a woman, but she was a horror when she was in Congress, so merely being a woman is insufficient to qualify for elected office.
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The more women we have in office the better government will be. Women generally lack the testosterone that makes men do stupid things and make poor decisions just to one up their peers. Women are generally more inclined to work for a consensus than are men. Not all of them would make good legislators, but more of them are than men are.
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I still don't get how so many women voted for Trump (or so many men for that matter).
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Where's Hillary now that we need her most?
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More than half of white women in this country said NO to Hillary. they must know something the other half didn’t.
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To Petey: Or not, Petey. All evidence suggests that they DIDN'T know what the other half did. Most evidence suggests that we've got a whole lot of stupid going on, pal/palette. Do you like what you got now? I don't. And I'm exercised about it.
I am looking forward to more women running for office.....NOT betsy devos,and lately I am extremely disappointed in senator Susan Collins of my home state of Maine. My other Senator, Angus King (independent) is a caring,intelligent man who makes sane and logical decisions.....so the sex of the politician is not everything.
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The GOP is a rich boys club serving only the rich.
However, one wonders in reality just how immune women are from the same toxic brew of motivations and distortions that define GOP policy platforms.
Fox News uses sex to sell its propaganda with its eye candy anchors, who are apparently also well-educated but spout horse manure nearly all of the time, just like the male news anchors.
The female senators of the GOP who could have tanked the tax cuts conveniently rolled over for the boys to allow theft from future generations. That’s not nurturing behaviour and neither is climate change denialist rhetoric.
The real issue is the urgent need for a return to rational political discourse based on facts and reason and a renewed sense of the common good.
For many years the western democratic countries have been the torch bearers for the overall progress of humanity.
Right now we are not doing as well as we could or as well as we must to contain the tide of religious and authoritarian oppression that lurks in China, Russia and the Middle East.
It’s undeniably imperative that we use the next few elections to put out the political trash.
Let the new candidates be decent, humane, optimistic, educated, rational, analytical, honest, law abiding, truly concerned for the plights of all of their fellow citizens and humbled in their understanding of their role in guiding the vessels carrying the hopes and aspirations of the human species.
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Sen. Gillibrand started a women's organization, "Get off the Sidelines" many, many years ago to address the need to support and encourage female candidates. That we have Trump in the White House and Moore circling above, underscores the ever-present need for advancement of women holding public office. This is a moment in time. IT MUST BE SEIZED. Put on your body armor-- or take it all off, if you prefer--either way RUN WOMEN RUN!!
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This is great news. Long overdue. This may ultimately prove to be the "Trump cloud silver lining".
A word of caution: Many will win seats in congress. 3 or 4 terms in...long after the galvanizing presence of Trump is gone...voter apathy will again raise it's sleepy head while at the same time, reelection campaign money will have to be raised. THAT is when the true patriotic and principled parliamentarian superstars will be revealed. Job-1...build a strong, competent and well run organization that listens to and helps your constituents with their often prosaic everyday citizen-to-government needs. It worked for Sam Rayburn, it worked for LBJ and it will work for you. Many women are naturals at this sort of work. While many people dislike congress the DO like THEIR congressman/woman. Godspeed!
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Never take for granted that just because you are a woman candidate that you will automatically have the support of women.
Trump won a majority of white women. It shows you that even women are more than willing to vote against their own self interest.
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It's about time! HURRAY! GO FOR IT WOMEN!
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Yes, Yes, Yes !!!!!!!!!! This is the best news I have read in years !!!!! There may be hope.
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Art imitates life as I keep seeing the avenging female theme on TV like American Horror Story and Godless. It's high time our legislature truly reflected our population. Given the avalanche of men who can't keep their hands to themselves I think society had it backwards. It's the men that should have been sequestered at home watching the kids (ok, maybe not all men) and doing the housework.
Why isn't there a woman running for every major position? There have certainly been quite a few elections where only men have been running.
If you've got the ability to give service to your country, run.
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As a man I think my gender has done more than enough damage, I agree lets give the ladies the chance to straightened things out. I don't see how they could make things any worse then they now are. For one I strongly believe they would come together despite different view points and beliefs to work towards solutions to our nations problems. I can't see them starting wars for one!
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I've waited for this my whole life.
At last!
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I had the privilege of volunteering for the Hillary Shields campaign in the special election for a Missouri Senate seat. She is smart, caring and tough but it takes money to win these races. Her main opponent, Mike Cierpiot (we call him Dark Money Mike), spent about a million dollars to win a State senate seat (about 10 times Hillary's war chest) and he buried Hillary with smear TV ads in the weeks before the election. Hillary put a good scare into him and the local Republicans but she will need enough cash for TV ads to win the rematch next November. She put together a remarkable campaign in three months and got virtually no help from a state Democratic Party that's in complete shambles. My main consolation was seeing all that sugar daddy money and dark money being burned for a hack's campaign.
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I had the absolute privilege of meeting Stephanie Schriock at the Emily's List luncheon this past Fall---and I am hooked.
I so want to mobilize the women in my town to donate/attend and get galvanized. We are all so incredibly fed up.
I was DISGUSTED this morning reading Chuck DeGrassley's comments:
“I think not having the estate tax recognizes the people that are investing as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies”.
There are two things implied there:
1. "The people" of whom he speaks are obviously not women......
2. ......because women are the commodity that is being bought.
I mean. COME ON! It's 2017 and one of our nation's lawmakers needs to have this explained to him??????????
So here we have a month when sexual harassment is at the forefront of the news and a comment like this gets made---and worse---people don't jump all over that aspect of the comment. Referring to women as a commercial commodity was as egregious as the rest of it.
......and for the upteempth time I thought about running.
Things have got to change. They just do. The alternative is UNBEARABLE.
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Maybe we can finally reclaim our time and our uteri.
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Hillary Clinton herself figures hugely in thousands of women considering running for office. She inspired many of all ages to look forward proudly to a historic win of the presidency.
But after a campaign marked by blatant and widespread misogyny, a popular vote win and an Electoral College loss in a compromised, if not illegitimate pres election, women said, "Enough!"
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Hillary Clinton lost primarily because she ran a horrible campaign; misogyny, Comey, the Russians played a marginal role. But in such a close election (it shouldn't have been close), those might have made a difference. Oh, and the fact that she built a coalition of everyone except working-class whites, and then her coalition didn't show up at the polls didn't help. Face it, she was the worst candidate we Democrats could have had. When I voted, Hillary got my vote, but it was a vote against Trump rather than for Clinton.
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I cheer on these 'Wallaces in America'.
Actually, despite everything we knew about Trump, 53% of white women still voted for him for President over Clinton so not really sure what women are saying here.
Trump would not have won if a lot of women had not voted for him. How many young women felt that Clinton’s feminism was passe. They had made it and no longer needed it, something like workers not needing unions.
Just remember just because the candidate is a woman does not mean that she will support women’s or family goals. There are plenty of women out there who do not believe in woman’s right to choose or in contraception. Nor will they necessarily support family or children’s needs. Just look at some of female CEOs we have had, saying having kids was easy because 1, their husband was raising them or 2 they had a full time nanny and had turned the adjoining offices at the headquarters into a nursery and they couldn’t understand why their female and sometimes male workforce was upset when they would no longer allow people to work from home
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That's what Republicans want you to believe. Trump did not win the majority of American votes. He would not have won the electoral college either, without the influence of a foreign government's internet troll army spreading misinformation about Hillary Clinton in specifically targeted social media markets.
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There is no question in my mind that if women are elected to all positions of power, this world would be a better place. Women are care-givers and "naturally" empathic.. and that's what this world needs: CARE. Let's start with America.
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Obviously, you've never heard of Ilsa, "She Wolf" of the SS...
Keep your eye on the goal, and not the aspirants promising to deliver it.
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They will get my vote until one half of the world occupies one half of the electoral seats. Nothing could be worse than the horrible mess that exists now.
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This seem to me to be a collective response by many women to Mr. Trumps misogynistic attitude. While I applaud anyone willing to serve in public office, the issues that triggered the decision for these women to run are not gender-specific. They are issues of fairness, honesty and humanity.
I suspect it's Trump's blatant sexism that push many women to take on a "not in my house" stance. It's a civilized and less violent version of a round-house kick to the face of the assaulter-in-chief . (In my personal perfect world, these kicks would have actually been administered by the targets of his assaults, but I digress.) And while these "kicks" could be administered equally effectively from a person of any sex, ongoing exposure and awareness of male sexual misconduct so prevalent in the news these days makes non-male candidates more newsworthy and supportable....which is an indication of how far our society still needs to go before sexism is truly eliminated. Regardless of who administers them, I hope the "kicks" land solidly and Trump loses some "teeth". My deepest hope is that impeachment will follow.
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Good for all the Democratic women running for office. They may be just what we need to stop Trumpism and start to save the country.
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To continue with Ms Tran's metaphor, may the wind lift up the wings of these candidates. I've know of several such women in West Virginia as well. They are angels of mercy compared to the good ole boys they're running against.
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Ironic, women will be the catalyst that will lead us out of this mess. Trump stupidly ticked off the wrong bunch of people.
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Please step up and become involved ladies. If there is some good to be seen in these times it would be the frustrations of the current can lead to an active of the now. Stand proud on the shoulders of so many who have stepped up and continue the work necessary to save our planet, it's people and all our children. Most men don't know how. The best teachers are the doers. Give us rational, stable leadership and achieve peace. You've got my vote.
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It's mothers and fathers who raised these tyrants we're dealing with now and they're just too darn old. Time for younger, smarter, fairer people to move into leadership roles.
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Brava to all the brave women who are sacrificing for the betterment of our nation. I am thrilled that we have an excellent candidate for Congress, Molly Sheehan, in Pennsylvania's 7th. She and other women running across the country deserve our support.
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Thank you Anders for recognizing Molly's candidacy! People can support her candidacy at www.mollysheehan.org or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/sheehanforcongress/
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This is one positive development following that awful election last year. Right now, women make up less than twenty percent of Congress. The Women's March was great, but the only way women's voices will be really heard in politics is if we are at the table when decisions are made. It will be much harder for men to take away our rights (including reproductive health care) when women are in the room fighting for us.
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I owned some land in Virginia. Seeing the direction Virginia is heading I sold it and am looking for land in a Southern state near me. I see North Carolina getting more purple with every election as Northerners keep retiring here and bringing their political system with them.
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Seeing that the south and east have been getting redder and redder, I have not been east of Vegas in over 30 years and its been years since I have crossed the Cascades.
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Agree! East WA might as well be Alabama in many respects...
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Last I checked, all 50 states are part of the same republic, with the same political system. If you harken back nostalgically to the good old days when only white male landowners could vote, you're in the right country but the wrong century. Moving south won't help - a time machine might, though.
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About time. Women have realized just what’s at risk in a Trump, McConnell, Ryan world. They’reawakening and seeing they are powerful.
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If all I knew about a lawmaker is that they want it to be legal to open carry swords in Texas, I would bet my paycheck that it was a man.
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Open carry of swords? This is your priority when children don't have enough food to eat and can't afford to see a doctor? No wonder women are stepping up.
I do wish that some of these women would run as Republican and take back that party from its state of insanity. The only way we'll ever have a sane political process ever again is if we have two viable parties and the only way we can do that is to purge the religious/racist/misogynist and corporate-beholden element out of the Republican party. Sane people are the majority and there's no reason we must be ruled by a minority.
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Glad to hear this because men don't care for us women or our children the same way we women do. Let's hope that none of these women behave as foolishly and selfishly as Trump and his monster Republicans.
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Our time has come! Enough is enough, we will not be silenced by the likes that have dominated the Washington elite. If their is a swamp that has need to be drained it is the one that is of white male GOP ignorance. Take off your blinders that you do not represent the populous.
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I hope this happens, & I hope it's good news.
I was always astounded that so many of the smartest, fastest-talking, convincing or influential voices in the decades-long red-state revolt have been women.
Those Ingraham/Coulter/Lahren types who viciously defend & enable the most disgusting of guyisms if perpetrated by a redstatist.
Let us not forget that like 45% of the women who voted, voted for the unreformed & now denialist grabber-in-chief.
As a male raised among vocal members of the golden age of activist feminists, the notion of right-wing women eagerly playing into hand of old-school patriarchy was always whiplash-inducing Stockholm Syndrome to me.
They actually defend the ideological territory of that famous fat, white demonizer of 'feminazis'.
People seem to be born progressive or reactionary. For the activist on either wing, regardless of gender, there's little overlap & total antipathy.
Let's hope the women inspired to run are those who want to put white, redstate misogyny back into its mancave where it belongs.
This resurgent sexism is suffocating to us all, & must not be tolerated, excused or enabled by anyone, especially women.
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Hi there NYT and Mr. Michael Tackett-
I think you meant to write Dr. Tran? A pediatrician for 25 years -- generally doctors are referred to by their title, not Ms. or Mr., whether male or female.
Thanks much.
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Actually, The Times and most other publications now defer to the individual's preference when deciding how to identify them in second reference. The doctor must have informed the reporter to call her Ms. Tran upon second reference.
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I once asked in an email to a Times writer why Hillary Clinton was referred to as "Mrs. Clinton," but Elizabeth Warren was called "Ms. Warren" in the same article. The writer told me that the Times was following each woman's personal preference for how she should be identified. It's possible Dr. Tran preferred to be called "Ms. Tran," and the reporter complied.
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"Barack Obama said he believes more future leaders should be women because men seem to be having some problems these days."
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My husband’s words as well.
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Men have always had problems, look at history, wars, sexual assault etc. The difference is that now it gets more attention and more people (men and women) are speaking out against it.
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More women running for and being elected to public office is way overdue.
Time to throw out the creepy old white men destroying our country.
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Thank you Hillary R Clinton for putting a crack in the ceiling for those who follow.
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Our young millennials, boys and girls, who are the future of this country, had a very different vision. But highly paid operatives put an end to it. Read how it happened https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donna-brazile-dnc-consultants-clint...
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Petey,
I welcome millennials into the halls of government. I am glad you discovered there are backroom shenanigans. Now is the time for you guys to get off of your rears and run for office. Most importantly you need to get your cohorts out to vote. If you look at the numbers, old people vote. Young people do not. If young people of all backgrounds voted, we would have had a very different outcome from this election.
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Mostly it's horrible news out there, but this is a little good news. I'm glad women are running but independent of of gender or even political party, if you live in a fact-based world, you're not obviously beholden to a corporate paymaster and you're not a bigot or a race baiter, I'll probably vote for you. That's how low the bar is now. I hope many of these women win.
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Kudos to the NYT for running this article in the political section as opposed to the Style section where I see too many stories about women buried. However, please correct one glaring error. Dr. Tran is a DOCTOR. Her proper title is DR. Tran not Ms. Tran.
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I believe it's common practice of the NYT to leave off the professional titles and use Mr. and Ms. for everyone. For example, male doctors are referred to as Mr. and not as Dr. also.
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Per the NYT style and usage, Ms. Tran would only be referred to as Dr. in an article about her medical practice. Example: Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, not Dr. Rand Paul.
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We had the opportunity she was there and ready to lead the country a hell of a lot better than its being run now. Where were the women voters, take your pussycat hat home and think about it.
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I slightly disagree. I believe with all of my heart that the tax cut would be the same, no wall, DACA still in place, Obamacare still in place, more weapons to the Saudis, more bombs in Afghanistan, and more talk of war with Iran and N. Korea. The only difference between Trump and Hillary would be the tweets. If Donald and Hillary are such polar opposites, what was she doing in the front row at his wedding and how on earth did their kids become best friends? I often wonder how many times Ivanka swung by Hillary/s place to see Chelsea? And when the womans march was going on, Hillary sat in a Broadway show tweeting her support rather than put on her own hat and lead the march:)
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Fantastic!
And when will the white female vote overall get fed up and stop voting for sex offenders like Trump?
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"And when will the white female vote overall get fed up and stop voting for sex offenders like Trump?"
When will men stop voting for sex offenders like Trump? Fifty-four percent of men voted for Trump, versus forty-two percent of women. If men hadn't voted for Trump in large numbers, he would not be president. Quit blaming women.
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The exploding political involvement of women has been on of the golden beams of sunlight at the end of a long, dark tunnel of a year. A year that felt like crawling over broken glass through a sewer. Time and again, we see that women are less partisan, better listeners, better managers, and more concerned with the long term consequences of their actions.
There is no way that a Congress with parity would have passed the such a reckless and cruel tax scam. Women get that a strong nation depends on decent care for children, the elderly, the under-employed--as much as on battleships and bombs. May a thousand Amy McGraths bloom forth.
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Every female Republican in the Senate voted for the tax bill. In the House only Elise Stefanik (R-NY) opposed it. All the other Republican Congresswomen voted in favor.
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Ladies, let’s roll! Vote, run, contribute, be heard. The 2017 word of the year is “complicit.” Let’s not let the 2018 word of the year be “complacent.”
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"The number of male candidates has also increased, so the proportion of female candidates has not ballooned...."
Doesn't this statement undermine the theme of this piece?
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It did seem that way to me at first, but not "balloooning" may not mean the share of female candidates has remained unchanged. I agree that it was an unfortunate construction by the author.
I could easily find the number of female major-party House candidates in the 2014 mid-terms, 159 (109 D; 50 R), but I couldn't find a tally of the number of male candidates. Fifteen of those races pitted two women against each other, so we might conclude that the other 420 House elections included at least one man, and 276 races (420-(159-15) were between two men. That comes to a total of 696 men and 159 women, or a ratio of 4.38. Female candidacies would not have to "balloon" to move that ratio more toward parity.
See the various tables at http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/women-congressional-candidates-1976-2014
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So disgusted with RNC leaders. Can’t wait to support candidates who care about all individuals and groups in the USA.
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Best news in ages. Time we women were recognized for our now superior college education and love of creativity.
Learn how to cook, clean and do nappies Daddy.
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Let's just hope Democrats don't kill each other off and spend all the available funds to win primaries. At no time in our history has it been more important to elect reasonable people to represent us in Congress.
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Annie's List is a similar organization to Emily's list. They focus on electing Democratic women to local office. Shameless plug I know, but we all know Texas really needs some help.
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"Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World," by Malcolm Potts and Thomas Hayden
Their solution? Elect women to public office, all over the world.
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Speaking only for myself I am still depressed by the evidence given last November that stupid and immoral men think they have any qualifications to be running things. Let them continue and it will only get worse.
Get rid of the stupid sexist swamp dwellers! They are spreading their reptilian-brained ooze, both literally and metaphorically, over: all of Earth's bodies of water; any place containing carbon-based energy; the food supply; women's bodies.
But I do thank them for the metaphor. As is usual with them, whenever they talk they are always talking about themselves.
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Unfortunately more women (or minorities) elected to office will not mean better government. That is just a liberal mantra and pure babble which sounds good but has no basis in fact whatsoever.
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A) Trump was elected in large part because he was not a business person and not a politician.
B) These people believed a business person, and all his business people in cabinet positions would result in better government.
C) Numerous studies have found that women run businesses are more successful than male run companies. According to Fortune "women finding that women CEOs in the Fortune 1000 drive three times the returns as S&P 500 enterprises run predominantly by men."
D) It isn't unreasonable to believe that women would be able to translate that success to government as well, if not better, than men.
Therefore it isn't babble and as basis in fact.
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And where are your facts to back that up? Please show your work.
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Sure, Bill, because there's absolutely no virtue in a representative democracy having representatives that accurately reflect the lives and experiences of those they represent.
If 90-100% of your Senators and Reps were black women, and had been for your entire life and the entire history of the nation, I'm sure you'd feel that adding more white men wasfoolish and unnecessary, and a legislature consisting entirely of black women could perfectly represent your voice in government.
I didn't think so.
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Unless we install more women into our legislative processes and do it quickly, this administration will forever tilt the courts with conservative white male judges in such a manner that women and minorities will suffer well beyond the Millennial generation. And the Millennials do not even see it happening.
Women have been under represented in all facets of life for too long. Perhaps now, the balance of public acceptance of women in roles of authority will shift to the positive. Something along the lines of "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any longer!"
In 2015, PEW released a 114th Congress report: In the House, women represented 26% of GOP and 74% of Dems; in the Senate, 30% GOP, 70% of Dems. and today in both houses combined, women hold only 21% in the House and 19% of the Senate; less than their 51% of US population.
There is the idea that the population of legislators should mirror the population of our country. Even in court cases, we attempt to have defendants be judged by a jury of their peers herein defined as: an impartial jury; a broad spectrum of the population, particularly of race, national origin and gender.
However, almost 100 years after getting the right to vote, when it comes to those that make laws that particularly apply to women and minorities, women do not have representation in parity to our population, let alone race and origin.
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Too little too late
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Stop complaining and run for office yourself. School board, dog catcher, whatever office is open.
No whiners, only winners. Let's go! Help make us strong.
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Heartening.
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The heck with women running for office. This white, 63 yo male is nothing but hopeful that more women will WIN.
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We've seen this before, as recently as 2014 when Zephyr Teachout, Wendy Davis and Allison Grimes were going to teach the old boys a lesson.
It's not how many women are on the ballot that counts; it's how many women turnout to vote and who they vote for.
As long as white women vote in large majorities for Trump, Moore and the GOP in general, it doesn't matter if the candidate has two "X" chromosomes or an "X and Y" chromosome.
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Zephyr's race was also badly affected by 6 million dollars of outsider dark money in support of her opponent, John Faso. Faso's town halls are few are far between. His constituents are ticked off by his votes on Healthcare. And if he supports this tax scam, it will be an albatross around his neck. This time, I suspect there will a hell of a grass roots organization on the ground and real money behind a strong candidate. The energy of local Indivisible groups has been pretty strong in this neck of the woods.
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Young women need to be activated. Reproductive rights must be on the list. If you don't completely control your body you will never control your destiny and men will continue to own you.
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As a woman I am glad to see more women running for office. I hope this is taking place on both sides of the political aisle. There is no down side to this trend in fact this is a "Nothing but net" moment for our country. However I am really looking for righteous women to ascend to political office. No corporately owned political robots please. As such Hillary Clinton is not a someone I could ever vote for.
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"Corporately owned political robot"? I thought you were talking about Paul Ryan.
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It seems as if women have finally realized that they can't entrust their health, their futures, and the futures of their children, to a bunch of white men in legislative positions. If women want responsible government that actually addresses the concerns of ALL citizens, than they have to be at the table to work for that goal. Kudos to the women who have stepped up to achieve that goal.
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Actually, despite everything we knew about Trump, 53% of white women still voted for him for President over by far the most qualified candidate who also happened to be a women.
Best news I've read in weeks! Women constitute MORE THAN half the population of this planet. We will not be marginalized any longer.
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There was a piece by Thomas Friedman earlier this year** where he said the only real way to deal with our current political situation is to run. Run yourself, and encourage as many people as you can to also run. I am running too.
Thank you to the women in this article, and thank you to the NYT for running some news about it.
Someone once said that with Men in charge, we reached the moon, which is great. But if Women were in charge we could solve hunger and poverty, which is truly needed.
Together, we can do it.
**i think so - if that timeline is incorrect please correct me.
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As a participant in the Women’s March in DC, I say thank you to all these potential candidates.
This has been a tough year. But we have made strides. You have picked yourselves up by the bootstraps and will move forward!
You will not believe the support you women will get. And guess what, walking alongside men in that march, from young guys with their wives/girlfriends, to dads holding their kids hands by mommie, to older men pushing their elderly wives in wheelchairs - you will have men’s support, too! I saw it, felt it there, and lived it walking right alongside them.
You Go Girls! Now is your time!
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It is a perfect environment for women to run for office. The Issues: Anti perpetual war in the Middle East. Pro education for children and young adults. Pro women's entitlement to political independence. Pro steady financing of government, not over and under. Pro ending the emotionalism of republicans in office.
Change the discourse!!!!
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It is about time! You ladies are definitely not going to do any worse than the current fiasco.
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One of the many positive outcomes of this will be less sex scandals if women are in office.
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Congratulations to one and all who are heeding the call and getting involved.
So many of us are so concerned about the direction of our country, concerned about the tenor of the political dialogue and frightened about the new " normal " which seeks to disenfranchise and marginalize " others ". Our hopes for a better tomorrow, a tomorrow which represents the best of all of us ride with you.
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I think that the GOP is going to rue the day that Trump became their standard bearer. But I also think that we as a nation will be better for his presidency. We need different voices in our government other than the run of the mill politicians and lobbyists who are more focused on personal gain than a progressive agenda for our country.
On the day of our Women's March in Portland, someone asked a policeman what he thought about what he was seeing. He responded that it looked like change to him. We were 100,000 strong and made up of women, their children, and male supporters all carrying diverse signs about what we wanted for our country. I can't remember the last time I saw that much citizen engagement in our democracy.
Time for some new blood in our government. Frankly, women are more likely to compromise so perhaps we can get rid of the current gridlock.
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Thank you to all these women for, among other things, this jolt of good news amidst the absolute trump horror show.
We must resist, we must vote, we must care, we must have solid candidates.
Thank you!
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This is a very inspirational article. I hope more women continue to run and win.
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May this be the beginning of a matriarchal society in this country. It is long overdue and much needed. As a Democrat I have occasionally crossed party lines to vote for what I considered to be a "sane" Republican. After watching what this Congress has done, and I fear will do in the future, I have vowed to NEVER vote for a Republican under any circumstances. And I will always choose a woman given the opportunity. So this is a call to all sane Democratic women. We must care for all of the people, not just some of them. And women seem to know best how to do that. I'm counting on you and will be supporting and voting for you.
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A lot of people, including myself, joined Indivisible when it first emerged on the national stage. Our emails and phone numbers could easily be organized onto one master list. I would be very happy to send support to every fledgling candidate, seeking to overturn the old-guard boy's club. I may not have a whole lot to donate individually, but my support along with the support of hundreds of thousands like me, could build momentum for significant change. Building the enthusiasm is where it starts. Creating concerned citizens who make a HABIT OF VOTING, in each and every election, no matter the weather, or inconvenience, and enthusiastically bringing others to the polls along with them, is the "secret sauce".
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I wrote editorials for 30 years for four newspapers and interviewed thousands of candidates. There were never enough women. Some would run in their 40s, but I can count on two hands the number of women I interviewed who ran in their 20s and 30s. I have lost count of the number of men who ran at those early ages, even when they didn't know the first thing about elected office. I asked one memorable young man, running for the state legislature, what his priorities were for the state budget. "I don't know," he said. "But when I get elected, I'll jump in with two feet and figure all that out!" To which I could only say, "REALLY?" My point is that we need women at every level, at every age. If men can run, and win, substituting bravado for wisdom, well, what are women waiting for? I tell every woman I know, especially younger women, "Run, baby, run." This is our moment. Our country needs us. For any woman reading this, JUST DO IT.
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Maura, I suspect families and children where then men in their lives aren't supporting their "extracurricular activities" are a reason that more younger women don't run.
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I recently joined Emerge Virginia (on the advice of my sister-in-law who is a member in California). I used to have a personal rule that I would not contribute to campaigns that were out of my district. Thanks to Mr. Trump, I have chucked that rule and will be contributing to as many Democratic women's campaigns in my state (and some in other states) as I possibly can.
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AnnH said: " I used to have a personal rule that I would not contribute to campaigns that were out of my district."
My rule has always been to contribute only to campaigns in swing states (mine will be just fine). Glad you switched your policy.
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Long, long overdue. Democracy is fragile. We can no longer treat this gift as if it runs on autopilot. Without close engagement from all citizens who want the best government for everyone, our system will fall to the most ruthless and powerful operators. Money does not trickle downward on its own, and neither does power.
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The newly found passion of women to protest the events since Trump's inauguration could not escape notice -- you feel it at most Resist demonstrations. The effectiveness of women's organizations is likewise visible. That is wonderful, and thanks and kudos. I hope the energized women find a way to also show some independence from the two large political parties. For too long I had two choices, detestable Republicans and not fully acceptable Democrats.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, to these courageous women who are running.
I'm not the kind who can run for office, so I am so grateful for those who can. I promise to donate, volunteer and spread the word and support you. It is time to have representation by people who actually care about their constituents. There is almost nothing left to identify with about our Congress, and I applaud their action. Women need to be involved.
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Thank you thank you thank you! To all these courageous and energetic women. If anyone can save this country from the abyss it has fallen into, it's you.
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This article gives me more hope than I can even express. thank you !!!!
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some good news, long called for. we must get out the vote and support the candidates that truly represent us.
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Yes!!!! What a rare treat: A hopeful, positive story about US politics! Fingers crossed!
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Look, it's only logical, over 50% of our population is female. If one goal of democracy is fair representation, then over 50% of our politicians should be women. Is ''tis not a rational proposition?
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Left to their own devices, almost any group of politicians will become arrogant, entitled and corrupt. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. People of all types have to get into the system, fight through the machine politics, and effect change.
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This is so necessary, aside from the question of who is president or of what party. Let's hope that the "wave" won't die down when Trump is no longer in office.
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Hooray. More gender politics. Although the systemic sexism and power currently in place with patriarchy is certainly real -- women are not inherently superior to men or exempt from abusing their power. Maybe I've had the good fortune of working for many women and many men in manager positions and often the women were harsher, less compassionate and more out to prove that they were equal to the men. My boyfriend was cheating on me with the Senior Partner at his law firm, a woman. He said she made it clear that was part of his role in the firm. I am not cheering for more women, I am cheering for more humane, educated, compassionate and environmentally passionate humans to take over our government. @johannaclear
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I've seen my share of rotten women in the workplace but let's face it, women aren't as likely to commit physical or sexual assault and they're more likely to pay attention to issues like education, health care etc.
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Sorry, Professor Dittmar, you're only half right. Trump embraces misogyny, not masculinity. Same with the quid pro quo and sexual harassment guys like Harvey Weinstein and, apparently, Rep Conyers. With his reported fondness for adolescents, Moore may not even rise to misogyny, only perversion.
Anywhere you look these days, you can find prescriptive definitions of masculinity, and I agree with all that I've read. The problem that I have is that, descriptively, masculinity encompasses behavior and even attitudes between these prescriptive definitions and the unacceptable behaviors and attitudes described in the preceding paragraph. I guess I could spend a few paragraphs on this and how men typically contrast with women, especially in terms of lapses in behaviors that do no rise to quid pro quo, sexual harassment, misogyny, or perversion, but maybe it suffices to say that, if womens' challenge to the dominance of masculinity runs Al Franken out of the Senate, you cannot count on my support come election time.
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I would love to hear how some of the 53% of white women who voted Trump into office are feeling about that right now. There had to have been some Democrats among that group, the number is just too high. I suppose this is a way to right that wrong.
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And may i recommend....new women, not the current women...that is what can bring voters back. It can be 90-year-old women (which would be great, btw) but no more Pelosi, Clinton, Feinstein, etc. A great thanks for their work but its time for new dreamers.
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We need way more women in office and in positions of political power. Just their experience dealing with sparring toddlers makes them more qualified than most men.
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Women are, perhaps, our only hope to right the US and its constitution.
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Really bored hearing Trump blame Hillary Clinton for his mistakes and those of Bill. Trump could never be the fine Secretary of State Hillary was. He is too incompetent. His constant ranting smells of jealousy and hatred of women. Time we ladies run for office. We like women and respect Hillary. After all she won the popular presidential race!
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Simplicity, integrity, and truth are the stuff of greatness. The women of America and all good men are with you. In fact, the entire Free World is with you.
Proceed.
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Celebrate! It’s so hard to find silver lining in the Trump era.
“As long as Trump is in office, there will be oxygen in this movement.”
Sweet mercy.
If a democratic woman is on the ballot she has my vote.
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Didn't see anything on sanctuary cities. Kate Steinle"s death by a direct Democrat policy has to be changed. I would hope for woman"s safety they would agree. A Trump policy that will save lives. Lets hope their hate for Trump does not over ride smart policy.
I'll bet money that you don't care about keeping women away from sexual predators like Trump and Moore and you certainly don't care about keeping women safe from things like gun violence.
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Nice try, Geo. Native-borns commit far more violent crimes than do migrants.
If Trump really cared about women's safety, he could catch actual rapists by pushing Congress to fund DNA testing for hundreds of thousands of rape kits that have sat unprocessed on police evidence shelves for decades, leaving the perpetrators free to rape again.
But he's too busy deporting people who never hurt anyone, and ensuring that the super-wealthy get even super-wealthier, while ordinary people get poorer.
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And Dr. Danielle Mitchell is running against Chuck Fleischmann, a staunch Republiclan Know-Nothing incumbent, in Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District, heavily gerrymandered that covers Chattanooga, Athens, and Oak Ridge as well as very rural areas.
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This is the good news I needed !
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Step aside. You had your turn. Now let the woman save the country!!!!Strong, Smart Women!!!
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This new women's activism reminds me of '9 to 5' when Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton took over the office and transformed it into a diverse, productive, humming, happy place...America would really be great if that happened nationwide.
A male commented here in support of women running but then had to put down Hillary once again. Why do some men fear or hate or despise Hillary so much? It's perversely unhinged.
Men better get used to smart, strong, independent women 'cause we ain't gonna be silenced again.
And we must never again allow male reporters to treat women candidates like they treated Hillary -- as a pack of jackals ripping into her at every turn while being little lambs gamboling around drumph's tiny feet.
I'm sending more money to Emily's List right now.
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Who among these women will be the American Margaret Thatcher? None, I think. Outrage over Clarence Thomas. Silence for Bill Clinton. Back to the outrage. More HRC. Pelosi, Warren, etc.
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Margaret Thatcher was Margaret Thatcher. The rising generation of American women entering politics will be....themselves. And proud of that.
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Thanks to all the Socially Conscious Women who are stepping up,running for office and winning! OUR United States of America depends on it.
Please, ladies, and Socially Conscious men who hold elected office,mentor young people to follow in your footsteps. There will, once again, be a tremendous radical right/radical religionist movement to try to hold onto power. They will find women to run for office, too. Voters need to make sure the candidates they vote for support 99% of us - not the catholic church, other radical religious organizations, the nra, white supremacists or the wealthiest.
They say every cloud has a silver lining. It looks like the courage of the most qualified candidate to ever run to be President of the United States of America - Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton - has created many gold-lined clouds of action. Thank you Ms. Rodham/Clinton!
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"Identity politics," Chris? You mean identities other than white, male and straight? News for you: Trump is very model of identity politics -- aggrieved white identity politics.
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Hillary's failure as a candidate - not bothering to campaign in Wisconsin? Really? - is how we got here: President Trump! She should never be praised for trashing her nomination to the Presidency. We are going to spend years rebuilding once Trump's out of office. All Hillary needed was for her and her miserable staff to take that nomination seriously - not assume she was inevitable. They were dead wrong. Nobody's inevitable.
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Sorry njglea, you missed reading how your candidate was thrusted on the young men and women who had a different vision for their own future.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donna-brazile-dnc-consultants-clint...
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This is great news. If outrage over Trump is inspiring this, so much the better.
But it's going to be essential that these candidates project a broader message than "I'm a woman and Trump is awful."
Hopefully they will find a winning message that will bring people back to the party.
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Do we assume that a man is running because "I am a man and Trump's 'locker room talk' is wonderful."?
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The message is in many cases LOCAL. Female candidates in Virginia won on issues like traffic. My hope is that the Democratic Party will be revitalized by a return to local, practical issues that make immediate, tangible differences in the lives of their constituents, building the trust and credibility to stand up on larger issues, whether they are gerrymandering, taxes, health insurance, or equal rights. That would be an ideal way to raise up new and younger and more racially diverse leadership, and bring the party back to life. I am so weary of Nancy Pelosi and her elegant suits and her carefully-scripted lines and her attachment to big money.
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The much in the news transgender candidate, Roehm, who won a seat in the Virginia legislature last month refuses to be baited by the MSM into becoming a cause for the national, cultural transgender rights movement.
When interviewed on CNN recently all she wanted to talk about was the problem with traffic light timing on a busy highway in her district despite the best efforts of the moderator to turn the conversation to cultural issues.
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This is the only way to save this country. Common Sense Women"
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What a great development on both sides of the aisle to add more common sense, voices of reason, and fresh new perspectives that can make a real difference.
Out with the old (especially old men) and in with the new!
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There are some old women also....Imagine a Senator at 84 planning to run again for a 6 year term, putting her at 91 when the term ends. Bad idea!
Hooray for the women running! I am just sorry that I am too old to do so.
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Understandable. The Democrats better not run Hillary again if they want to get back in control.
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As we've learned she isn't low enough, base enough, ignorant enough, unethical enough, or self serving enough to be popular with the Republican voter
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Wow, Dan. An article about 20,000 women aspiring to do what Clinton and other women of her generation pioneered -- run for high office -- and that's all you can see in it? Disdain for the first woman in 240 years to be a major party's presidential nominee? You're part of the problem.
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With the constant onslaught of horrid Republican legislation, sexual scandals and Trump's deplorable tweets, it's GREAT to read how women have become active and energized politically. Now we must win!
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Thank God for Indivisible, Emily's List, Emerge Virginia and all the organizations which are enlisting and empowering women to run for office!
It is well past the time for women to show the world how democracy should work.
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I hear your applause but I propose that we thank the Women .
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Texas has Annie's List helping to elect Democratic women to local office- lord knows our school boards need this.
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