Hillary Watch

In a new report released today, by Rutgers’ Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) and the Barbara Lee Family Foundation that examines gender dynamics in the 2016 race in order to call attention to, and change, some of the stereotypes associated with the presidency. Hillary Clinton was criticized when she suggested that sexism and misogyny…

By Kathy Groob, Founder ElectWomen – This is what it is all about. All the work, all the workshops, all the training and all the advocacy. A woman will be elected to the highest executive office in the land. Hillary Clinton is making history this week by becoming the first woman presidential nominee  for a…

By Kathy Groob, Founder ElectWomen – It has been a long journey and a team effort. I feel proud and so emotional this morning relishing this historic moment. Most of all I want to say thank you to all the women who have sacrificed, worked, given money, and taken one for the team to make…

Despite their stark differences on just about everything, the popularity of both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders flow from a deeply-held belief that radical change is needed in our system of government. Both men want to upend a broken system. Now. As in right now. By their definition, the ability of our next president to…

This might work.  Jason Linkins Editor, Eat the Press So, that happened. After months of cautiously straddling the line between the Democratic presidential candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has suddenly injected herself into the 2016 race in a big way, emerging as an antagonist to presumptive Republican nominee and white-supremacist land-lamprey Donald…

  By Kathy Groob, Consultant, Founder ElectWomen – In the final days before the Kentucky Primary Election, Hillary Clinton visited my hometown and I had the opportunity to see her and speak to her for the third time.  With only a moment to chat, I wanted my comments to be encouraging and meaningful.   I…

By Kathy Groob, Founder ElectWomen Every time I hear a woman say we shouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton because she’s a woman, I cringe.  I cringe because nobody is saying anything about the gender of the men candidates. The male presidential candidates do not endure double standards, sexist remarks or the higher standards in which…

By MAGGIE HABERMAN, POLITICO – Hillary Clinton told a packed auditorium of New York University students Thursday that the most important tip she could offer women in public life was a lesson she took from one of her role models, Eleanor Roosevelt: “Grow skin like a rhinoceros.” “When you look at the challenges of being…

NBC/MSNBC – FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Officially, the concert hall billed it as a Terry McAuliffe campaign event. But the northern Virginia crowd came to see Hillary Clinton, potential 2016 presidential candidate, and they greeted her like the headliner. “The leader who has joined us here today–” was as far as McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate…