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Fast Facts - Elections - Current Women Candidates 2008
LIST OF WOMEN CANDIDATES - ELECTION 2008 Congressional and Statewide Office List of state legislative candidates available here . Summary of the numbers of women candidates by level of office, including numbers, parties, and years when candidate records were set, available here. General Seat ...
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Majority of Undecided Voters Are Women But Who Wants to Talk About Gender?
Tennessee Guerilla Women — ... American Women and Politics (CAWP). For example, a new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, conducted two weeks before election day, finds that women are 60 percent of all undecided registered voters and 61 percent of undecided registered white voters. The Pew poll is the only recent poll with a large enough sample to allow a meaningful breakdown of undecided voters by gender and race. More at CAMP (pdf) LIST OF WOMEN CANDIDATES - ELECTION 2008 Politics Gender News ...

A landslide election for women candidates?
Feministing — ... The Center for American Women in Politics is keeping an election-night scorecard. I'll also to keep you posted on how women candidates are doing as results roll in. ...

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