Democratic women won big on election night

[riversedge]

Source: CNN




Updated 8:17 AM ET, Sat November 11, 2017
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Women swept battleground states and districts on election night
Democrats won the Virginia governor's race thanks in large part to female voters

Washington (CNN)It could have been another day of mourning.

Instead, one year after the Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton lost the election, Democrats celebrated on Tuesday -- in large part because of the women voters who helped propel their nominees into office and the record number of female candidates who themselves were elected.


In Virginia, Democrat Ralph Northam won the governor's race, a feat that wouldn't have been accomplished without women.

He led women by a broad 21 percentage points, according to exit polls — a larger spread than when Democrats like Clinton won women by 17 points in 2016, Mark Warner won women by 12 points in his 2014 Senate re-election and Terry McAuliffe won women by nine points in his 2013 race for governor. Northam also more than doubled Clinton's lead among white college-educated women: He won them by a broad 15 points over Clinton's slim six-point lead.
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Another of the biggest forces in the Virginia races was Planned Parenthood, which helped Democrats defeat a Republican lieutenant governor nominee, Jill Vogel, who as a state senator had pushed a bill requiring women seeking abortions to undergo vaginal ultrasounds.
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The article included this hashtag I had not seen before. Hope it catches on.

#2018WeGotYou
The Center for American Women and Politics, a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, said in a release that this week's election entailed "a number of landmarks for women."

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

1. K&R

[BigmanPigman]

2. Michael Moore and Chris Matthews believe that a fresh group of

Dems not only need to run in the midterms but will win in this current political atmosphere. Bill Maher had them on a guests last night and all three were really pushing for new faces and names to go for it since this is the perfect time for them to run and WIN!

[murielm99]

3. I think a big part of this is that

women are angry. We know Hillary won. We know that it is long past due that sexual predators and repressers get called on what they have done.

[Honeycombe8]

4. "You've come a long way, baby."

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first woman to run for the U.S. House of Representatives, even though she was not eligible to vote. She ran as an Independent from New York State, receiving 24 votes of 12,000 that were cast.