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three days later and washington state finally has a senator incumbent democratic patty murray
survived a tough reelection fight that so waiting momentarily which was something of
an exception in this election
this could have been the big headline wednesday morning your fellow man
afterall record roster women filter or file to run thirty six in the senate
and two hundred sixty two in the house
as a limo spot
the hydro by candidates out there were women
yet as we know
that was a fun sound effect all right
from christine o'donnell the shared angle meg whitman to limit mcnair
one by one they felt in most cases to old white man
so that they lose because they were bad candidates
because they were the wrong party
coconino women voters copper on women candidates oxidation question and we'll bring it down
with warrior felt former president of planned parenthood anna was rights activists and although
the book notes uses
and crystal ball congressional candidate whose bid for house seat fell short on tuesday
chris let me start with you because you're in irregular that uh... so what happened in
your race what do you think uh...
my hasn't had much less to do with being a woman and much more to do it being a democrat
unitech district and half year
healed me really felt that we're an excellent campaigner family brought out our core constituency
groups we've yet to analyze the numbers that i think when women didn't come to us but the
other side was just so energized this year if there was nothing we can get matter
poison let me ask you didn't know
most of the republican actually i'm so it was a woman running rection the republican
side b in terms of the high-profile
senate candidates right
www is repugnant or doing something right in the tracking more female candidates at
least lately
well i think that made progressive whenever
but open the doors
and now these conservative women have are just crashing right on through the and and
and they have less experience of running to be perfectly honest with you at the nineteen
eighties when i'll be back and we shouldn't think that they were defeated this year uh...
made they simply lost one election
my guess is that many of them will be back in the future and i'll be stronger candidates
as a result of that and that's why the progresses had better be really on their terms and they
had better be cultivated never rights of women
burglary there is a great irony in a lot of these people stay off senators
but they forget that he was not that long ago where women denied the right to follow
abandon fitness got that right
george st now bash right goes towards a point of white house and along party leg with the
center there it is a warning if they were democrats the and of course not be guaranteed
by any shop
or but
but this is republicans are they not appealing to all of those women voters
you know i have to say that i think the most important thing is for people to run on the
platform that they feel most passionate about
and at what i think is missing and i think the tectonic plates has really shifted for
women in politics this year i i i i've never seen anything quite like it
um... what what has shifted is that progressive women are the ones who are who are not being
cultivated in or not running in the numbers that they should be running and i a path that
we really need to be looking at increase a little early on that i mean that that's a
good question
conditional admission some numbers first one is more for example in
six was forty three to fifty five percent in favor of the democrats so that's a big
number of illegal immigrants but in twenty ten deflect
let that republicans winning forty nine to forty eight
but that's kind of amazing so
what went wrong there
uh... for the democratic party this then and how billions that uh... once more
well i think there are couple of things you know this is a time when the economy is still
the number one issue and there's a lot of uncertainty
women tend to be very concerned with this pocketbook issues and i think quite frankly
the republican party
had uptight stronger message and more more disciplined and that message about how we're
going to fight to get the economy back on track that's unfortunate because the democrats
should be the stronger party on the economy other thing i wanted to mention to you i think
there is somewhat of a syrian fairy tale in effect you know i've said even now i am a
progressive woman and i disagree with time many policies she was very influential in
getting me to run simply because i saw her on stage with her young family running for
vice president and i thought you know what i could get this i think they're a lot of
women on the right through felt that same way and and really that's why they decided
to step up and running nice please don't tell me your mama grizzly ***
cinematically right manzi
kathleen here and i think we would be remiss if we didn't get knowledge that there was
a lack of leadership from the top
and i think a lot of four women were running away from what was it with the rest of the
electorate was running away from which is they are sold discouraged about the president's
lack of
i'm just getting out there and saying this is what i believe this is a near that lack
of moral certitude since camp since the voters away from
two days have been overshadowed as an overall democratic promise it did her chris on her
raised her down grace in his race i talked about it he made the same exactly
yesterday on their let me ask you about women if you need to go to your
earlier point gently one more unabashedly as women
because right now that well i hope you know candidates is like
note about so we have all pomerantz
off on anybody's right calm down and it may be running as a woman might actually help
you
rather trying to help him and the men's
absolutely i i think that what it was brilliant things in about a day during the campaign
was to make three speech
i think if hillary clinton had made the the sexism speech at about the same time that
i believe she might well be president today bob i think that hillary did do exactly what
you're saying and i think that women can it's often feel a real catch-twenty two and frankly
when you have to deal with this i talk about this a lot in my book you know your if you
if you're two top tier two top if you're not tough enough that you obviously don't have
the strength to be a leader and so when you still have a fine line that they have to walk
but you know what we can do that you should have progress less which is a very real quick
uh... so how do you want
more as a woman if you will
well our campaign certainly provides an interesting example because i was faced with these attacks
that i considered sexist and we decided to call it out
sexism i received advice early on in my campaign said drafts folder
contrast more conservatively concerts lay down my femininity to cut my hair where started
here's hills all of those things i think i just embracing who we are being marcelo
and having confidence in the voters that what they're looking for is not fancy percent not
someone who's good at pretending to be someone else's product great susan thank you both
so much thank you