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Republican female organizers are using “Ning” communities and other social networking tools to rally voters to produce what they hope will be a Republican surge in Congress, one that carries many GOP women into breakthrough positions.
The 2010 elections could bring the first drop in women’s congressional numbers in 30 years. Despite that, a bipartisan effort targeting the over-45 set aims to make the next elections, in 2012, a bonanza year for female politicians.
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When mothers of young children got elected to Congress a nursing room and day-care center opened on Capitol grounds. That’s the kind of representation and advocacy that parents with young children need out here in the real world.
New Mexico’s Susana Martinez and South Carolina’s Nikki Haley could be the first women of color to win a U.S. gubernatorial race. But that’s only the start of what their candidacies have in common.
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Last week Congress let federal funding expire, potentially costing more than 200,000 parents and young people their jobs. In contrast to the $700 billion Wall Street bailout, the $1 billion program that created these jobs was actually working.
Health reform promised to extend Medicaid to numerous childless women. But with states struggling to balance their budgets, women’s advocates fear a scaling back. They say it’s crucial for Congress to authorize more funds in coming weeks.
Michelle Obama’s speech earlier this week was so good Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich could taste it. But the media’s wide-eyed surprise dismayed her with its suggestion than such an accomplishment by a black woman should be considered rare.