Monday, May 20, 2019

GET ME REWRITE. GOP women face a big obstacle in North Carolina's 3rd congressional district: GOP men


Such as the one in North Carolina that Walter Jones gave up due to health reasons earlier this year.  He was first elected to Congress in 1995 and easily re-elected 11 times.


‘Bigger Than a Party of Old White Men’: G.O.P. Women Seek to Replenish House Ranks.  (The New York Times, 5/16/2019)
Still reeling from a monumental step backward — one in no small part because of women’s antipathy to President Trump — Republican women are trying to seize the first opportunity they have to begin righting their political ship in a special election in eastern North Carolina.Still reeling from a monumental step backward — one in no small part because of women’s antipathy to President Trump — Republican women are trying to seize the first opportunity they have to begin righting their political ship in a special election in eastern North Carolina. 
Advocacy groups and female lawmakers desperate to elect more Republican women to the House are rallying behind Joan Perry, a pediatrician and political novice who in late April finished second among 17 candidates to advance to a July runoff with Greg Murphy.

Here's how the top 6 finished.


Source:  Ballotpedia

Of the 17 candidates, 14 were men and 3 were women, with the men collecting 78.9% of the vote.

Voters in coastal North Carolina might not be ready to elect a woman to Congress.

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