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a kennedy

(29,647 posts)
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 12:09 PM Jul 2020

Well la de dah.......could be new year of the woman for gop......

More women ran for office in 2018 than ever before, which led to a record number of women in Congress. Overall, the share of House and Senate seats held by women increased by 4 percentage points, from 20 to 24 percent — adding more women to the ranks than in any other election cycle since 1992.

However, these gains were primarily driven by Democratic women, who ran in large numbers: Almost three-quarters of the women who ran for Congress in 2018 were Democrats. But 2020 looks different. More Democratic women are still running for office than Republican women — and more Democratic women are running than in 2018 — but as the chart below shows, the share of all female candidates who are Republican has grown substantially, up from about a quarter in 2018 to 39 percent.

(love the cross AND the gun on her hip )

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/2020-could-be-the-new-year-of-the-woman-for-the-gop/

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Well la de dah.......could be new year of the woman for gop...... (Original Post) a kennedy Jul 2020 OP
More Qanon women believers won GOP nominations than ever before... dawg day Jul 2020 #1
However, 4 women GOP Senators could lose wryter2000 Jul 2020 #2
Exactly..... a kennedy Jul 2020 #3

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
1. More Qanon women believers won GOP nominations than ever before...
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 12:15 PM
Jul 2020

And they're bragging about being completely addled and crazy.

Surely there are some non-crazy GOPers with two X chromosomes?
Maybe you have to be crazy to be a woman Republican.

wryter2000

(46,037 posts)
2. However, 4 women GOP Senators could lose
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 12:28 PM
Jul 2020

McSally, Loeffgren (sp?), Collins, and Ernst. I believe that's about half of the GOP Women in the Senate. And good riddance to all of them.

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