A record-high number of women of color — 263 — ran for the House this year. More in the latest weekend reading:
who is running for a full term in Alaska. Of course there is a lot at stake in this election so I hope that you are making plans to vote on or before Nov. 8.Demonstrators rally against anti-abortion and voter suppression laws at the Texas State Capitol on Oct. 2, 2021 in Austin, Texas. The Women’s March and other groups organized marches across the country to protest the new abortion law in Texas.
There’s a stark party divide when it comes to the number of women and women of color nominated in the primaries. In 2018, Republicans and Democrats combined nominated 16 women to be governor candidates. In 2022 this number has jumped to 25 .which says if enough of these women win, “the current record of nine female governors serving at the same time, first set back in 2004, could be broken.”
The number of female candidates running for Congress has dipped slightly compared to the record high levels reached in 2020 and the last midterm elections in 2018.
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