UNDERNEWS: Record breaking number of women running for Congress

February 20, 2018

Record breaking number of women running for Congress

NPR - At latest count, 431 women were running for or were likely to run for the House nationwide — 339 Democrats and 92 Republicans. At this point in 2016, there were fewer than half that: 212. Likewise, 50 women are running for or likely to run for Senate, compared to 25 at this point in 2016. Many have not officially filed for office yet — filing deadlines have not occurred yet in many states. But thus far, this year is on track to break records.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: It will be an experiment with an "ethic of care" legislature. We'll see how that turns out.; February 20, 2018 at 8:52 PM
Bill Hicks said...: Great--no doubt we'll soon have plenty of new Sarah Palins, Michelle Bachmanns and Virginia Foxes to worry about--to say nothing of Hillary Clinton. If women ran the world they'd do just as bad a job as men, they would just act more smug and superior while doing it.; February 22, 2018 at 9:45 PM

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