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The Generation Gap: The Real Story in the Midterm Elections

11/14/10 12:00pm by kbojar
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Obama at the BET Youth Town Hall

The gains Republicans made among women voters has been one of the main storylines of the 2010 midterm elections. Despite these gains, the gender gap has persisted and according to the Center for American Women in Politics: “was at least as evident in 2010, a year of substantial Republican gains, as it was in 2008, a year when Democrats were elected in large numbers.” So the gender gap persists, but pales in significance when compared with the generation gap.  Read more >

She vs. Her: Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader?

11/10/10 12:40pm by The Editors of ...
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She vs. Her: Nancy Pelosi Minority Leader

Welcome to She vs. Her -- where we ask two bloggers with different perspectives to make their case. This week: Jill Miller Zimon and American Princes talk about what Nancy Pelosi should do next.  Read more >

Christine O'Donnell, Krystal Ball: Sexism and the Midterm Elections

11/5/10 4:12pm by Meghan Harvey
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Christine O'Donnell

The highest-profile attacks against women candidates were directed toward Krystal Ball, who was running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Virginia’s first district, and Sarah Palin protege Christine O’Donnell, who was running for the U.S. Senate in Delaware. Both women lost by pretty large margins after some of the most talked-about photos of the election cycle surfaced.  Read more >

Oklahoma Gets Protection From Sneaky Muslims

11/5/10 6:52am by Sabria Jawhar
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Koran

Oklahoma has a message for its Muslim population: We don’t want you here. How else to explain Oklahoma Republican State Representative Rex Duncan’s “pre-emptive” anti-Sharia measure passed by the state’s voters on Tuesday? Duncan wants to target the Muslim community, which accounts for less than 1 percent of the state’s 3.15 million residents, because he suspects they might do something sneaky.  Read more >

Social Media in Election 2010: More Than Just Online Campaigning

11/4/10 5:42pm by Erin Kotecki Vest
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Picture at the polling place

Now that the dust has settled after Election Day 2010, those of us who spend our days online get to pick apart if social media made a difference. The short answer: of course it did. You can no longer run any sort of campaign for any office without some sort of online presence. But this cycle it was more than sheer campaigning that took the headlines.  Read more >

Women Voter Mumbo Jumbo or Just the Prevailing Wind?

11/4/10 8:22am by Sarah Granger
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Fire Pelosi button

Year of the woman? Bah. Maybe we had more run, but we lost seats overall. And Sarah Palin doesn't seem to be helping things. Most of the women she backed lost. What about women voters, who were so important in 2008? Let's get one thing straight: women are swingers. That's what the numbers say, anyway. And women swung right.  Read more >

Election 2010: Women's Gains and Losses

11/3/10 2:38pm by Jill Miller Zimon
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Nikki Haley, governor-elect

For months working up to yesterday's Midterm election races, headline after headline sported some version of "year of the woman" or "year of the GOP woman" or "Dem women face losses due to year of the GOP woman" or "Mama Grizzlies growl through year of the woman" or...you get the idea. So how did women do? Quick hits (information based on data from the Center for American Women in Politics) U.S. Senate:  Read more >

2010 Election: The Day After Wrap-Up and Resources for Bloggers

11/3/10 9:14am by Jill Miller Zimon
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Republicans gain majority sign (Picapp)

Last night was pretty epic, and you know I'm not talking about the number of cookies, chips and cups of coffee I consumed while channel surfing in a room full of NE Ohio political bloggers (all who lean left, while our state went right!).  Read more >

10 Most Memorable Political Videos on the Right in 2010

11/2/10 2:57pm by AdrienneRoyer
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Demon Sheep

Take a break from looking at poll numbers and the endless predictions from pundits and let's recap the past top ten memorable videos on the right-side of the political spectrum, from Demon Sheep to Old Spice parodies.  Read more >

Celebrites Tweet the Vote: Do You Care?

11/2/10 11:34am by JennaHatfield
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Alyssa Milano Says Vote

While most celebrities, like Eva Longoria, Kevin Smith and Rosario Dawson are simply using their (twitter) voices to encourage followers to vote, others have been more... uh... vocal about what to vote for this election day.  Read more >