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Senator Blanche Lincoln Hangs On; Runoff Scheduled for June
by Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Arkansas), a key voice for Wall Street reform, survived a primary election defeat Tuesday evening forcing a runoff election to be held in June. She emerged from the primary two percentage points ahead of her Democratic opponent, but because she failed to get 50% of…
Read MorePRIMARY 2010: Kentucky Democratic Woman’s Club President in Race for Circuit Clerk
Susanna French has been in the spotlight during in recent years. She’s been leading one of the country’s largest Democratic Woman’s organizations, helping to organize efforts to support Democratic candidates. But this campaign season, Susanna French is a candidate herself. French is running in the Democratic primary for Marshall County Circuit Clerk. The office of…
Read MorePresident Obama appoints woman to Supreme Court
President Barack Obama is batting two for two for women when it comes to his Supreme Court picks. Today, the President appointed Elena Kagan to serve on the United States Supreme Court If confirmed, Kagan would become the fourth woman to serve on the high court and the second woman that President Obama has appointed.…
Read MoreJennifer Brunner falls short in Ohio U.S. Senate Primary
Jennifer Brunner fell short, receiving 45% of the vote on Tuesday, in her quest to become the Democratic nominee for the open U.S. Senate seat in Ohio. Billed as the underdog taking on the Democratic establishment in Ohio, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (D-Ohio) isn’t giving up the fight to win the U.S. Senate race…
Read MoreU.S. NAVY: Women Now Approved for Sub Duty
CNN- The first women to serve on U.S. Navy submarines are expected to be on the job by fall of 2011, Navy officials said Thursday, ushering in a policy change to what has been an elite service open only to men since the start of the modern Navy’s submarine program. While Defense Secretary Robert Gates…
Read MoreThe Pill’s 50th Anniversary – The Great Women’s Liberator?
Promises the Pill Could Never Keep Editorial By ELAINE TYLER MAY, New York Times AN end to poverty. A cure for divorce. The elimination of unwed pregnancy. Fifty years ago next month, when the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would approve the oral contraceptive, these were the highest expectations for it. At the same…
Read MoreCBS NEWS:Dems Slam GOP for Lack of Female Candidates
by Stephanie Condon, CBS News As Democrats head into what is expected to be a tough election year for them, the party says it has a solid lead over Republicans in one respect — its number of women candidates. Seeking to ding the GOP on the issue, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is pointing…
Read MoreTennessee’s Kim McMillan Says NO GO to Governor’s Seat
Kim McMillan (D-Tennessee) has been running for governor of Tennessee since 2008. But on the last day of March, 2010, she announced she is no longer in that race and is running for mayor Clarkesville (TN) instead. There were at one time seven Democrats vying for the nomination, but had been narrowed down to two.…
Read MoreDaily KOS/SheKOS Diary: DNC Needs to include electing women in platform
From SheKos’s diary Huh. Guess there’s nothing actually in the platform about party outreach towards fielding more female candidates. (For the record, the passages on grooming more minority and LGBT Democratic candidates are equally nonexistent.) Maybe it never occurred to anyone running any of the platform hearings that women might face more obstacles to becoming viable…
Read MoreNPR Ranks the Top 10 Senate Primary Races; Includes Four Women
National Public Radio’s (NPR) political junkie, Ken Rudin has ranked the top ten U.S. Senate primaries coming up in May and June, and the list includes just four women. Arkansas Senator, Democrat Blanche Lincoln is facing a tough primary opponent who has the support of labor and the left wing of the party. The second…
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