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Gender gaps in electing presidents on screen (opens the original)
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🚨🚨🚨This post contains spoilers about TV shows that you frankly should’ve watched by now anyways😉 Please advise. At the Emmys last week, Allison Janney took home her 8th statue — an all-time record she shares with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Cloris Leachman, and Jean Smart — for her supporting role in The Diplomat as President Grace Penn (the show returns to Netflix Oct. 15). <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B7_k!,f_auto,q_auto:good,
The "Year of the Woman" keeps happening — just not for Republicans (opens the original)
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This year, a record 85 women are running for governor — the most in U.S. history, breaking the previous high of 69 set in 2022. More women are running for Congress too, a rebound after 2024 saw their numbers dip for the first time in three cycles.While it sounds like unambiguous progress, it isn’t. Of those 85 women running for governor, 51 are Democrats, and nearly twice as many Democratic women are running for Congress as Republican women. In a <a href="https://blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/primary
The gender gap Democrats should watch (Gap Check) (opens the original)
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Welcome, new Gender Gap subscribers — I'm glad you're here! Gap Check is a new, shorter, weekly-ish post built around a single gender gap datapoint that clarifies something in "the discourse." I’ll still post longer pieces once a month or so. Thanks for reading. Subscribe nowWhen Graham Platner’s Senate campaign collapsed this month, the discussion that followed wasn’t really about Platner. It was about what kind of party the Democrats want to be.</p
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