A new poll from American University shows that voters supported women candidates in the 2018 midterms because of the qualities that they were perceived to have, such as a willingness to compromise in order to achieve desired goals.
The 2018 midterm elections will be remembered as The Year of the Woman in more ways than one.
Certainly a major factor is that record numbers of women voters in urban and suburban areas gave control of the House of Representatives to the Democrats.
Women may finally get their revenge on serial sex offender Donald Trump and his GOP enablers in Congress. From all reports it appears that the 2018 midterm elections will be a Big Blue Wave fueled by the energy of women and the ‘Me Too” movement.
Now that Nancy Pelosi is finally appearing on the cover of Time Magazine it may be true that 2018 is “the year of the woman.”
The Democratic Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives is confident that her party will win the majority of House seats in November, putting them back in power and without a doubt making her (again) the Speaker of the House.
While over half the U.S. population is female, four out of every five members of the U.S. House of Representatives are men.
Given the number of women running for Congress in 2018, that statistic may significantly change when new members of the House take office in January of 2019.
