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She is the only woman running for governor this year and if she loses there won’t be a single female Democratic governor left in the entire country.
The 47% Mitt Romney doesn’t care about is likely to be made up of women.
What does ‘Pro-Life’ mean in Politics and Polls? http://womensenews.org/story/abortion/120815/abortion-poll-data-jolted-hot-button-lingo
Women account for 53 percent of French voters but there’s little to suggest they will pack their punch behind any single candidate in the upcoming elections.
In a February survey by CSA and the women’s magazine Terra Femina, Hollande earned 15 percent of respondents’ vote as the strongest proponent of women’s rights. Another left-wing candidate, Eva Joly of Europe-Ecologie, won 10 percent, the same score as Francois Bayrou of the centrist Modem party. Sarkozy, of the right-wing UMP, earned 9 percent; Marine Le Pen, 8 percent.
Get all the info at http://womensenews.org/story/campaign-trail/120419/frances-lone-female-candidate-least-feminist
Sounds Crazy, But This Could Be Year of the Woman at Women’s eNews
Data crunched by Deborah Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., suggests this year will be a second “year of the woman,” Walsh said at January’s launch in the nation’s capital of the Political Parity Project, a coalition of 51 women’s organizations dedicated to doubling the number of women at the highest levels of U.S. government.
“This presidential election year is the first time in a generation, that women have an opportunity to gain a large number of congressional seats,” Walsh said.
