Saturday, November 29, 2008

Facts About Female Elections Past and Present.

A website that has been a major contributor to my blog is www.cawp.rutgers.edu
I spoke about it in my last blog as well; however I continue to find really good sources and articles that pertain to my blog topic of Women in Politics. I was searching through this website trying to find something to write about and under the facts tab are tons of facts about not only this year’s elections but elections that date back to 1996. Along with election results were fact sheets and historical summaries of women candidates that were running for office this year as well as many previous elections. I found one sheet that listed all of the women candidates running for Congressional and Statewide offices in 2007. The sheet showed what office they were running for, the state in which they were running, whether the seat was open, incumbent, or there was a challenger as well as the result of the election. I was actually very surprised to see that in over 100 elections that women were running in, they won over 90 percent of them. As well as fact sheets on elections there are also facts and reports that are made available by the CAWP that show voter turnout, gender gap, women’s vote watch in this year’s election as well as past years, as well as facts about Resources for and About Women of Color. I also noticed that the web site included links to other websites that offered campaign training for women. This site was called “Ready to Run” and is a bi-partisan national effort to recruit and train women to run for all levels of office. The amount of information on this web site that covered female politics is amazing, I only wish that I could have found this site earlier in the semester when I first started my blog project.

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