AP: Women file to run for US House seats in record numbers
By Geoff Mulvihill and Maureen Linke
The number of women running for the U.S. House of Representatives set a record Thursday, most of them Democrats motivated by angst over President Donald Trump and policies of the Republican-controlled Congress.
Their ranks will continue to swell, with candidate filing periods remaining open in more than half the states.
In many places, women are running for congressional seats that have never had female representation.
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A surge of women into this year’s midterm elections had been expected since the Women’s March demonstrations nationwide just after Trump’s inauguration in January 2017. Numbers analyzed by The Associated Press show that momentum is continuing.
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Campaigns for the House aren’t the only ones drawing high interest from female candidates this year.
Forty women are running so far in governors’ races, a total that already surpassed the previous record of 34 in 1994. And 29 women are on ballots for U.S. Senate races, a number that will grow as filing deadlines approach in more states. The record number of female Senate candidates is 40, set in 2016.
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just hope we don't shoot ourselves on the foot in places like California that have "weird" primaries.
We won't vote for women because they are women (see Hillary Clinton).
Can we at least get past voting for women despite being women? 
