Posted on 08/22/2019 11:11:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
To the editor:
Women voters are going to make the difference in the 2020 election — just like we did 100 years ago in the 1920 election.
A century ago, Iowa women were celebrating their victory in pressuring their state government to ratify the 19th Amendment. It was 99 years ago this week that those same women learned they would have the right to vote in a presidential election for the very first time.
Republican women, in particular, took the initiative back then by registering to vote, allowing them to play a key role in giving the GOP landslide election victories throughout the 1920s.
(Excerpt) Read more at theperrynews.com ...
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.
IIRC Prohibition was one of their first “accomplishments”. Just sayin’.
Well, according to polling data, white women voted for Trump over Hillary. And married women, another key group, supported Trump over Hillary.
Single women, and women of minority groups, voted heavily for Hillary.
So women will make a difference in what happens in any election, of course.
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