Kelly Dittmar - "I write about the intersection of gender and politics."
Posted on 01/08/2024 9:23:51 AM PST by simpson96
Sixteen years ago, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to ever win a major party’s presidential nominating contest for the purpose of delegate selection. On January 8, 2008, she finished first in the New Hampshire Democratic primary with 39.1% of the vote, followed by Barack Obama with 36.5% of votes cast. While Clinton did not win the Democratic nomination that year, she did win nominating contests in 23 states and territories. In 2016, when she became the first woman to win a major-party nomination for president, Clinton won 34 nominating contests. While other women have run for president since Clinton first made history, no others have earned the plurality of votes in any state’s primary or caucuses.
This month, Nikki Haley will try to become the second woman and the first Republican woman to ever win a presidential nominating contest. She’ll compete first in Iowa’s caucuses next week, hoping to close what most polls predict to be more than a thirty-point gap between her and frontrunner Donald Trump. That gap is smaller is New Hampshire, which holds its primary on January 23. (snip)
Haley’s focus is not on breaking a presidential glass ceiling for Republican women. Instead, her attention is centered on how to chip away at the cement ceiling on which Trump comfortably sits. But Haley does acknowledge her trailblazing experience, most notably as the first Asian American woman and one of the first women of color to ever serve as governor in the United States (to date, she remains the only Asian American woman to serve as a state’s chief executive). If Haley bests Trump in any state, she would also become the first Asian American woman and first woman of color to win any major-party presidential nominating contest.
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Kelly Dittmar - "I write about the intersection of gender and politics."
Hates men?
You may have liked some of the candidates.
But face it, Trump will be the nominee.
Does Kelley Dittmar realize Nimrata Randhawa is not eligible to be president via Article 2 Section 1? She is not a natural born Citizen.
Thatcher made history.
Haley makes mistakes.
She’s a sexist IMO......and a thin-skinned one at that.
Wrong temperament to be POTUS.
“If you want something SAID, ask a man......if you want something DONE,ask a woman” __Nikki Haley during first debate.
“Trump will be the nominee.”
Not if Jack Smith and a DC jury get their way.
Probably said by Haley in a building entirely built by men.
No she does not. Subject of Natural Born citizenship is not discussed anywhere in the mainstream media.
I’ll be glad when I don’t have to hear that I am woman hear me roar crap anymore.
People that feel the need to run around telling everyone what a badass they are usually aren’t.....regardless of gender.
“first woman to ever win a major party’s presidential nominating contest for the purpose of delegate selection”
just keep adding more qualifiers.
You’ll come up with something.
She looks retarded.
I don’t think Jackass Smith can stop the nomination. None of the trials will be underway — let alone concluded — by Super Tuesday.
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