Women in Both Parties Are Disappointed by Their Modest Election Gains

[theHandpuppet]

The New York Times
Women in Both Parties Are Disappointed by Their Modest Election Gains
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Nov. 5, 2014

WASHINGTON — When Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat, beat Scott Brown to win re-election on Tuesday, her supporters saw history being made — although not by Ms. Shaheen.

“Scott Brown made feminist history,” crowed an email from Emily’s List, the political action committee, noting that Mr. Brown also lost to Elizabeth Warren in 2012. As Stephanie Schriock, the committee’s president, said Wednesday: “He lost two Senate races in two states against two Democratic women. That’s pretty awesome.”

The Shaheen victory was a rare bright spot for Democratic women in a mostly gloomy year. While Republican women fared somewhat better — in Iowa, Joni Ernst rode her biography as a pig-castrating “farm girl” into the Senate, and Mia Love of Utah became the first black female Republican elected to the House — 2014 was hardly the year of the woman.

True, the election did set a record of sorts: Next year, more than 100 women will serve in Congress for the first time in history. But women in both parties say the growth is incremental and the numbers are disappointing....

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[upaloopa]

1. With 1/3 of voters voting how many women stayed home?

I would like to know every time that there is a story about some group being dissapointed about the election, what percent of that group voted.

[theHandpuppet]

2. I'd also like to see a breakdown of who voted this mid-term

Does anyone have some links?

[theHandpuppet]

3. Here's a partial breakdown

http://mic.com/articles/103422/3-charts-show-how-america-voted-in-this-year-s-midterm-elections

What these charts don't provide is the percentage of eligible voters from each demographic who actually voted.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. No shit on this

Black voters overwhelmingly voted for Democrats, leaving the population far out of Republican's reach. However, Republicans did still maintain their lead with support from white voters. Asians voted for parties in relatively even numbers, with Democrats pulling just a slim majority in votes.


And this -

Gender

The gender norms for both parties held true, with Republicans capturing more votes from men and Democrats capturing more votes from women in this year's midterms. Neither conservatives' nor liberals' numbers budged much on their numbers of men and women voters, which will likely disappoint Republicans who have been working hard to curry favor with women voters.



Suck it! They just need to suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck it!


I would like to see the percentages - but that says an awful lot.