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Economic Security

Voter Gender Biases: What Are Voters Thinking? While one in five voters is looking for a candidate whose top priority is security and terrorism, half are looking for someone focused on economic and domestic issues. This bodes well for female candidates, who are competitive with male candidates on homefront issues [...]

A Word on Raising Money and Organizing Women

Raising Money “The difference [between men’s and women’s campaigns] is simply money, the availability of money…” – Candidate Like it or Not: The Most Important Factor is Money While women candidates have become financially competitive in federal races, many of the women who ran for governor in 1998 lamented that [...]

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General Observations

The Clinton-Palin Factor No one believed a race was won or lost because of gender. The candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin were deemed to have no impact or a slightly positive one. This latter finding was among those who believed that having more competent women in the environment [...]

National Security

Voter Gender Biases: What Are Voters Thinking? In the current environment, male and female voters have the same agenda. Jobs and the economy, terrorism and national security are the dominant issues. On the issues of terrorism and military response, both men and women voters listen for male voices. However, female [...]

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