A record number of women ran for office in 2018, most Democrats, and a substantial gender gap was evident even among white voters with women favoring Democratic candidates more heavily. . ..…
For the in generations, one party now controls every statewide elected office, along with both chambers of General Assembly thanks to the success of Democratic candidates. . ..…
EMILY’s List, a Democratic group that spends to elect female candidates who support abortion rights, heard from 42,000 women who said they wanted to run for office, up from 920 in 2016. . Like with any candidate, Democratic women needed money to win their races, and they got exactly that. ..…
Oklahoma just elected Kendra Horn, a Democrat, to Congress, the first Democrat elected to a national office in that state since the 1970s. ..…
Democratic gains in previously Republican-dominated states mean Democrats will have bigger say in redistricting maps, which Republicans have used in attempt to solidify their majorities without getting the majority of votes recent elections. ..…
Women poured into grass-roots groups determined to regain Democratic control of Congress and flooded organizations that trained them to run for office. ..…
Garlin Gilchrist is now Michigan's first Black lieutenant governor Democrat Gretchen Whitmer was elected Michigan's next governor on Tuesday, retaking the office for her party after eight years of Republican control. ..…
Democrat women flipped Michigan and Kansas, defeating male Republican incumbents. . But what will more women in office mean? . It means that women are better represented. ..…
Ermold lost the Democratic primary to Mr. Caudill, chief deputy in the county property valuation office. . ..…
Demonstrators urging Democratic Party to protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program outside the office of California Democratic Sen. ..…
The dictator tends to favor conservative economic policies while, at the time, using his military and intelligence goons to round up and incarcerate unpatriotic critics and socialists, torture them, and even execute or disappear them. ..…
But in order to understand why the escalating violence is taking place where and when it is, we must consider not only the Anglophone regions’ exceptional political isolation and relative economic autonomy from the rest of Cameroon, but also the increasing impatience of Africans living under..…
President Donald Trump speaks during news conference in East Room of White House, Wednesday, Nov 7, 2018, Washington.. ..…
Democrats rode modest wave of anti- Trump anger to retake House of Representatives, while Trump's racist pandering to the backward, rural areas of the country helped Republicans increase their control of Senate. ..…
In New Jersey, Democratic Gov. Jim McGreevy, elected in 2001, had been outed as gay while in office. . Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, is now the youngest woman elected to Congress. ..…
WASHINGTON — Women in key swing districts across the country delivered congressional victories to Democratic Party Tuesday, helping to shift the balance of in U.S. ..…
In a striking defeat, House Speaker Gene Chandler, a Republican, lost his bid for a 19th term to Democrat Anita Burroughs, who spent 20 years in marketing management and says she decided to run for office because of concerns she had over the outcome of the 2016 election. . ..…