In 2018, female candidates helped power the Democratic takeover of the U.S. House.
February 8, 2020, 5:21 PMIn this Feb. 3, 2020, photo, a woman caucusing for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sits in the Warren section at the Precinct 68 caucus at the Knapp Center on the Drake University campus as the night of caucusing gets underway in Des Moines, Iowa. After female candidates helped power the Democratic party to retake the House in 2018 the party's women seem only moderately enthusiastic about voting for a woman for president.
Only about one-third of Iowa caucusgoers backed a female candidate. Topping the caucus field were two men, former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders,. Women were only slightly more likely than men to back one of the three women in the race, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 3,000 Iowa voters.
woman can win. As they seek success in New Hampshire, both Warren and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar must work to energize voters about the chance to make history and persuade them it is possible this year, in this race against this president. Experts say the findings are in line with traditional patterns in voting by gender — women usually don't coalesce around one of their own. “Nobody's going to win an election by unifying women because women are not a unified bloc,” said Kathy Dolan, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. “There's no evidence that suggests for us that women candidates vote much more for women candidates than men.
“Anytime they're trying to convince voters that a woman can beat Donald Trump, they're not talking about health care or foreign affairs,” she said.
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