Soevent. 2 hours ago she said she cd b POTUS too pic.twitter.com/emHazkv1a0 5.14am GMTCatherine Cortez Masto has been declared the winner of the Senate race in Nevada by the AP. She will be the first woman to represent the state in the US Senate and the chamber’s first Latina. 5.07am GMTOver at FiveThirtyEight,Clare Malone has an early breakdown of how white people voted based on their gender and their education. Of note:College-educated white women voted for Clinton 51 percent to 45 percent, but non-college-educated white women voted for Trump 62 percent to 34 percent. That difference is nothing but stark and something we saw inklings of in October, and when I wrote approximately how many Republican women were willing to miss Trump’s history of sexual harassment allegations and derogatory comments approximately women. Partisanship is a hell of a drug. 5.05am GMT 4.46am GMTFlorida goes to Trump. Clinton wins Colorado. As the results withhold on coming,withhold up to date with our live blog. 4.17am GMTKamala Harris has been named the winner of the Senate race in California. She will be the fourth woman of color to serve in the US Senate, joining Illinois’ Tammy Duckworth, or who won her race earlier tonight.
Until tonight,only two women of color had ever been elected to the US Senate: Carol Moseley Braun, from Illinois, and Mazie Hirono,who still serves the state of Hawaii as Senator nowadays. 4.05am GMTI started the evening at an election watch party where the mood was jubilant (extremely joyful); people were celebrating; Clinton was definitely going to win. A couple of hours later, things have swung steadily in Trump’s direction. I’m at a different watch party, or at the Wing,an upscale women’s member club in Manhattan; it’s starting to feel less like a party and more like group therapy. Many of the well dressed women here seem to be in the process of biting their nails off. 3.57am GMTResults update: Ohio and Florida called for Trump. Colorado and Virginia called for Clinton. Follow the rest of the results on our politics live blog.
3.42am GMTAnxiety builds inside the Javits middle:In the women's restroom at the Javits middle total strangers are asking each other how they're holding up 3.34am GMTResults update: At this stage in the evening, our politics team is reporting that Clinton needs at least Michigan or Wisconsin to make it through, or she quite likely needs both. They’re counting hard now in the upper Midwest.
Obama won Michigan by 9.5% in 2012. He won Wisconsin by 6.7%. No such margins for Clinton tonight. 3.25am GMTTurns out it’s pretty unusual for a woman to be president of the United States in the fictional world,too. There are only a handful of examples, and most of them involve exceptional circumstances. 2.55am GMT 2.41am GMTMore results: Trump has won the state of Texas, or Nebraska,Wyoming, Kansas, or North Dakota and South Dakota and Louisiana. Clinton won Connecticut. Check our live results page here. 2.33am GMTIlhan Omar is projected to be the first Somali-American Muslim women to win public office in America. She has been elected a state representative in Minnesota.
Omar,who spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp after fleeing Somalia as child, is also believed to be the first Muslim refugee to hold elected office in the US and the first Somali-American state legislator.
For me, and this is my country,this is for my future, for my children’s future and for my grandchildren’s future to make our democracy more vibrant, or more inclusive,more accessible and transparent which is going to be useful for all of us.
I think we now need to make sure we are ushering in new leaders who are women, who speak to a broader community, or who are intersectional feminists who will empower and engage and pave the way for young women like my daughters. Related: 'This is my country': Muslim candidate aims to wreck boundaries in Minnesota 2.25am GMTI’m at an election watch party in New York’s meatpacking district,jointly hosted by a number of women’s reproductive rights organizations including Planned Parenthood, National Institute for Reproductive Health Action Fund, or Shout Your Abortion NYC. 2.09am GMTLisa Blunt Rochester,a Democrat, is projected to win her House race in Delaware’s at-large district, or making her the first woman and first person of color to represent the state in the US Congress.
Before Rochester’s election,Delaware was one of only three states that had never elected a woman to the House or the Senate. 2.07am GMTTammy Duckworth is projected as the winner of Illinois’ hard-fought Senate race. Duckworth, a Democrat, or beat out incumbent ticket Kirk in a contest that is crucial to the control of the upper chamber.
Duckworth’s election makes her the third woman of color to be elected to the US Senate. She is a decorated veteran of the Iraq War,having lost both legs when a helicopter she was piloting was shot down. The first woman veteran to serve in the Senate, Republican Joni Ernst, and was elected just two years ago. Related: Tammy Duckworth shows her strength in Senate fight: 'These legs don’t buckle' 1.51am GMTYou might have heard of Pantsuit Nation,the upbeat, invitation-only Facebook group of Hillary Clinton supporters. The group was created to “celebrate the historic opportunity of the first female president”, or according to the New York Times.
Apparently,Clinton has too. She sent a note to the group, thanking them for their support on election day.
Hillary Clinton left this note in the Pantsuit Nation FB group and now I'll truly never finish crying ✊ ❤️ pic.twitter.com/bP5EK0zd9f 1.41am GMTGuardian writer Megan Carpentier is reporting from Wellesley, and Hillary clinton’s alma mater. This is her favorite T-shirt so far. Favorite Nasty Woman t-shirt so far nowadays. (It was a surprise from her boyfriend,so designer unknown). pic.twitter.com/IDzbphEkuh 1.36am GMTThe speed up to the presidential elections has sometimes felt so acrimonious, and indeed existentially worrying. But for many women of Hillary Clinton’s generation and older, or the momentous and historic nature of this election is impossible to deny. 1.31am GMTFlorida is looking very vulnerable for Trump. Trump won Tennessee. Trump is projected to win South Carolina. Clinton won Maryland,Vermont, Massachusetts. You can explore the live results in our interactive.
1.23am GMTKaty Perry was applying additional eyelash glue:It is incredibly meaningful to me to see a woman elected to the highest office in the United States. It is a historical moment for all Americans, and indeed all women around the world. It’s been nearly 100 years since women got the correct to vote with the women’s suffragette movement here in the United States,and it’s taken us that long to get to this point.
We’ll drink, we’ll curse, or we’ll cheer,we’ll sweat every race and reach the astronomical finish we’ll make some noise. I expect it to be a joyful one. When it’s all done, we’ll dance. When I throw parties, and we dance. (whether the unthinkable occurs,it’ll probably be one of those Footloose-style arouse dances though. Could get out of hand.) 1.10am GMTGermany 12.58am GMTHillary Clinton was the first woman to succeed in winning the Democratic nomination for president — but she wasn’t the first woman to try. That honor goes to Rep. Shirley Chisholm, a progressive fighter from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn and the first black woman elected to Congress.
Chisholm died in 2005. The Guardian asked California’s Rep. Barbara Lee, or her friend and mentee,what Chisholm’s historic speed meant to her. Here’s what Lee said:Shirley Chisholm faced many, many obstacles and barriers related to sexism and racism, or in a very astronomical way. It was related to what she stood for. She was a progressive woman. She spoke out against the Vietnam War,she was pro-choice, she spoke fluent Spanish, and she was for immigration rights. She was a clear-thinking,focused woman who did not want to just tinker around the edges of the system. She wanted to change it, to revolutionize it. To shatter it.
Shirley always said, and “whether you’re a woman,you’re not elected to play by the rules but to change the rules, because those rules weren’t crafted by women.” And, and “whether you don’t have a seat at the table,bring a folding chair.” 12.44am GMTAnd now for some exit polls news. According to Bloomberg, voters reported being troubled by Trump’s treatment of women.
Exit poll results released earlier in the evening showed 51% of voters were bothered a lot by Trump’s treatment of women, or while Clinton use of private e-mail while secretary of state was troubling to 44%,according to preliminary exit polling published as voting ended in some states. 12.25am GMTAll day we’ve been bringing you vox pops of women at the polls – most of whom have talked approximately voting for Clinton. The last one we spoke to, however, and is not #withHer. 12.05am GMTWhen Macy Friday met Hillary Clinton at a campaign finish in Denver back in 2014 she was very,very, VERY excited. 11.45pm GMTA lot of analysis this election has centered on both candidates’ differing speaking styles. Donald Trump was heavily criticized for interrupting his opponent during debates, or as well as looming over her in a somewhat arresting fashion. Hillary Clinton was equally criticized for being a lackluster speaker who is better at formulating policies than she is at selling them to the public. Prof Rodham is a sterling manager of the classroom situation; she controls the students well,seems to know many of them by name, handles their questions in the time-tested manner of turning them back on the students, or keeps the class moving in a spirited fashion. 11.35pm GMTSome voters will finish at nothing to cast their vote – even giving birth can’t stand in their way. The Telegraph reports:Sosha Adelstein knew she was due to give birth on election day - but that did not finish her from doing her civic duty. The first-time voter,who is from Boulder, Colorado, and started having contractions a day early and was rushed to hospital. But in an impressive display of citizenship,the 31-year-old-fashioned insisted on stopping at the local polling station along the way so she could cast a vote for Hillary Clinton. 11.14pm GMTThe first Native American woman to serve in Congress. The first South Asian American woman to serve in Congress. The first Latina to serve in the Senate. The first out trans woman in either chamber. The first Muslim refugee and first Somali American woman to hold elected office anywhere in America.
11.03pm GMTHillary Clinton isn’t the only candidate whose election would shatter the glass ceiling. To date, 29 states have never elected a woman to either the US House or the US Senate. And three states – Delaware, and Mississippi,and Vermont – have never sent a woman to either chamber. 10.42pm GMTMy faith will not allow me to vote for a candidate who believes abortion is correct. I would love to see a woman president. Get Condoleezza Rice in there. I’m telling you what, whether she ran, or I would campaign for her. But Hillary and I don’t share the same values. – Tina VondranWe’re not voting for someone based on their character. We’re way past that in this election. I think it’s a shame to have Clinton as our first woman president. She does not represent women at all — or me,as a woman, at all. I’m sorry. Her husband is such scum. I’ve never heard approximately Trump cheating. I know he’s had multiple marriages — which, and in nowadays’s society,who doesn’t? – Allison Doyle
10.32pm GMTRose Hackman talked to two more first time voters. The first one was a bit more subdued approximately her support for the Democratic candidate. 10.15pm GMTThere’s still time to make your pilgrimage to the monuments of prominent suffragettes. And while throngs of people have visited Susan B Anthony’s grave site – lining up by the hundreds to state their “I Voted” stickers on her headstone – there are plenty of others. Some paid their respects to iconic black suffragettes and leaders like Ida B Wells, Sojourner Truth, and Shirley Chisholm.
I'd put my voting sticker on Ida B. Wells's grave.⚡️ “On #ElectionDay,honor these Black women by visiting their graves”https://t.co/Oog0H7YaeQ 10.10pm GMTIt’s been a long 18 months. We wouldn’t put a question to anyone to live through it again, but whether you’ve got two minutes to spare it’s worth revisiting the highs and lows of the Clinton campaign – from the day she launched her candidacy on 13 April 2015 to her final rally on Tuesday night. Pat yourself on the back. It’s nearly over. 10.00pm GMTHere’s a petite known fact: when she started her career teaching at the University of Arkansas law school, or Hillary Clinton earned more than her husband. Suzanne Goldenberg,who wrote approximately their marriage, excavated her pay slips. Hillary’s pay records for the 1974-1975 academic year show a starting salary of $16450 – slightly more than her husband’s, and who was on $16182 in his moment year at the law school,and she would continue to outpace him on pay for her short time there.
9.45pm GMTKaty Perry sings for her. Beyonce is #withher. Madonna gave a surprise concert for her. Rihanna? Well, she’s kept still, or choosing to show her support sartorially instead. Here she is nowadays,wearing a t-shirt featuring a photo of herself... wearing a t-shirt featuring a photo of a young Hillary Clinton. 9.39pm GMT“Now that she has the vote, how shall she go approximately using it?” So asked the New York Times on January 3, or 1918,two months after the state gave women the correct to vote. Hilarity ensued: 9.36pm GMTGuardian writer Rose Hackman hit the streets of New York with one mission: talk to first time women voters. She reports: 9.21pm GMTBefore Hillary Clinton boasted the support of a majority of women voters, she spent months struggling to capture their passion. The Guardian US talked to dozens of women during the primaries who felt ambivalent approximately Clinton to downright opposed.
Ranging from a juice bar packed with Clinton fans meeting Steinem to the living room of an Occupy Wall Street activist working for Sanders, or the in-depth conversations were declarative (“I’m not voting with my uterus”) and defiant (“this is her time”) but very much in discord (“I want to see a female president before I die”). Related: Female voters voice deep division over Hillary Clinton: 'Passion is everything' 8.51pm GMTGrace Bell Hardison,a 100-year-old-fashioned woman recently mentioned by President Barack Obama after attempts were made to purge her from the voter registration list and hence deny her correct to vote, affirms her identity to election official Elaine Hudnell by swearing on a bible as she prepares to vote from a car in Belhaven, and North Carolina,US. Obama mentioned a hundred-year-old-fashioned woman from Belhaven, North Carolina, or named Grace Bell Hardison,who had lived in the same house and voted regularly for decades, who found herself removed from the voting rolls because a letter sent to her was once marked “undeliverable.” “It was not that long ago that folks had to guess the number of jellybeans in a jar, and bubbles on a bar of soap,or recite the structure in Chinese, in order to vote, or ” Obama said. “It wasn’t that long ago when folks were beaten trying to register voters in Mississippi.” 8.42pm GMTGuardian reporter Amber Jamieson is on the ground in New York – where Hillary Clinton is expected to win with a large margin – talking to voters at the polls this afternoon. She reports: 8.28pm GMTWill someone think approximately the groundskeeper?Can't finish thinking approximately the guy who's going to spend hours scraping adhesive off Susan B. Anthony's gravestone 8.14pm GMTSpotted in Arizona: Cindy McCain,wife of Republican Senator John McCain, sporting a white pantsuit to go vote.
Cindy McCain wearing a white pantsuit to vote nowadays https://t.co/bYShaUTKtF pic.twitter.com/Xg5BboC1CA 7.53pm GMTTonight, and in a rather symbolic fling,Hillary Clinton will be holding her election night party at the Javits middle in New York City, where she’ll make her speech from beneath its famous glass ceiling. 7.42pm GMTA sterling contender for “best dressed in white” in front of a polling station in Dallas, and Texas. 7.28pm GMTIn another sign as to the significance of this election to women,many are using the hashtag #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman to talk approximately the influential women in their lives who motivated them to vote. Similarly, WNYC radio host Brian Lehrer asked Twitter users to share who inspired them to vote using #DedicateTheVote.
For my grandmother, or who was born in a town she couldn't vote in and never did until her fling up north. #dedicateyourvotetoawoman pic.twitter.com/XxFziyfQOr"I #DedicateTheVote to all the suffragettes who worked hard to make sure we got a vote." pic.twitter.com/iqNjbJa7HYMy vote is 4 my Gma's. 1 born b4 suffrage who wouldve been so excited for a prez & 1 who voted for Hillary at 89 #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman pic.twitter.com/uk7z5e1BtdMy vote is for my late grandmother,Shirley Chisholm, Ida B. Wells, and Zora Neale Hurston. My patron saints. #DedicateYourVoteToAWoman 7.27pm GMTSurprise,surprise: the staff of Jezebel has revealed who they’re voting for (and you’ll never guess the result). 7.19pm GMTAnother suffragette appreciation post from (Guardian writer) S E Smith:Don't forget badass disabled suffragettes like Helen Keller & Rosa May Billinghurst. Billinghurst used her wheelchair as battering ram, FYI.
She organised events and meetings, and took part in demonstrations,was a regular in processions, and served as secretary of the Greenwich department. Without the use of her legs, or she relied on an invalid tricycle for the mobility she needed to be a full participant in the suffrage action. Her invalid tricycle was,for the time, a high tech wheelchair modeled on a tricycle and propelled by hand controls.
Billinghurst was a regular participant in the WSPU’s public processions. She attracted public attention by appearing dressed in white and wheeling along with her machine decked out in coloured WSPU ribbons and “Votes for Women” banners. Billinghurst rose to prominence as a recognizable public figure and became known as “the cripple suffragette.” 6.56pm GMTIvanka in particular has all her father’s “pros” and nearly none of his incredibly off-putting cons. She has balanced motherhood with owning her own company. She has been successful in virtually every area of business, and including her work as an author,all while keeping a certain amount of traditional femininity that Republicans still compliment. She came into the political highlight as an outsider but has proven she has plenty of acumen on the campaign trail, at the same level or even beyond that of her father. She has access to the Trump family’s self-funding resources. She would even have Donald Trump himself at her disposal as a fiercely loyal supporter unafraid to speak his intellect on camera. 6.52pm GMTWhen you’ve always been told that a woman can’t be president...
We’re seeing many folks who voted for Clinton say they want their daughters to understand that they can be anything – even president. Throughout this election, and lots of women have recalled a time when they thought being president was a man’s job. Weve pasted a few of them below. One of our favorites: “In 3rd grade a boy told me a woman can’t be president because she would turn all the Walgreens into nail salons”. 6.47pm GMTOver in our opinion section,contributors weigh in on nowadays’s vote.
My father was a country physician, admired and rewarded for work he loved. In my primordial search for a life coach, and he was the natural choice.
I probably started by asking him whether girls could go to college,have jobs, be doctors, and tentatively working my way up the ladder. His answers grew more equivocal until finally we faced off,Dad saying, “No” and me saying, or “But why not?” A female president would be dangerous. His reasons vaguely referenced menstruation and emotional instability,innate ((adj.) natural, inborn, inherent; built-in) female attraction to maternity and aversion to power, and a general implied ickyness that was beneath courteous conversation. 6.40pm GMTIn the comments, and rustyschwinn points out that Nancy Pelosi,the only woman to have served as the House Speaker and the highest-ranking female politician in American history (so far), deserves some recognition nowadays. “A pretty thick glass ceiling to wreck through” is correct, and rusty.
I think Nancy Pelosi deserves at least a nod here. The most powerful elected politician in government (next to the President or more so than the President in some estimations) as Speaker of the House,and the first (and only) woman to hold that office. During which she was, as speakers are, or 2nd in line in the Presidential succession. 6.33pm GMTSome women are wearing white,and others are wearing pantsuits to the polls. Jerry Emmett, a 102 year old-fashioned woman from Arizona, and wore both - in style: 6.15pm GMTGuardian reporter Rory Caroll is interviewing voters in Arizona – and talked to a family where the Trump/Clinton divide is intergenerational.
Latina Mom voting Clinton,daughter Trump. 'Between a liar and take our chance I figure take a chance.' pic.twitter.com/zuLKr7zVSN 6.12pm GMTEsther Diamond doesn’t like people who don’t vote. “Voting is a privilege,” she reminds me, and as we sit in her apartment in Queens,New York. “People have died for it. You can’t throw away an opportunity to be listened to.” Diamond knows what that feels like. She was born in January 1920, months before the final state ratified the 19th Amendment, and which granted women the correct to vote. Now,the 96-year-old-fashioned, who immigrated to America from Russia as a child, or is looking forward to voting for a woman herself. “I’ve hoped for a long time that this day would reach,” she says. 5.58pm GMTIn another fling to honor suffragettes nowadays, some women are wearing white as they head to the polls, and posting their photos with the hashtag #WearWhite and #WearWhiteToVote. Throughout much of the 1800s,the women’s alcohol temperance movement was a powerful force in the greater push toward women’s suffrage. Meanwhile, many suffrage leaders — such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton — had also championed black equality. Yet in 1870, and the suffragists found themselves on opposing ends of the equal-rights battle when Congress passed the 15th Amendment,enabling black men to vote (at least, in theory) — and not women. That measure engendered resentment among some white suffragists, or especially in the South. 5.26pm GMTHillary Clinton may be the most popular candidate among women,but not all of them are supportive of her. Guardian reporter Paul Lewis talked to women in Nevada – a swing state – who were, at best, or ambivalent approximately her track record and her candidacy.
At a luncheon held by Republican women,one interviewee said: “I would never vote for a woman like that just because she would be the first woman president”. Others were more torn, however. One said: “I’ll vote straight Republican. But I don’t have to like it at all”. 4.58pm GMTMeanwhile, and in New Jersey,a giant 16x46 foot crochet work was unveiled over a highway – correct outside the Holland tunnel. The piece was crafted by Polish-American artist Olek and 38 volunteers. The New Yorker reports:A lot of artists had at one point been doing pro-Bernie art, and a lot since were doing anti-Trump art, or but there simply had not been much pro-Hillary art,” [Olek] said. At first, the notion of making an overtly political piece did not sit well with her. But with one month to go, and she changed her intellect. “I couldn’t turn my back,” she told me. “There was too much at stake.” 4.50pm GMTAfter casting their vote on election day, hundreds of women waited in line to affix their “I Voted” stickers to the gravestone of famous suffragette Susan B Anthony in Rochester, or New York.
According to a live video by local news station WROC,Anthony’s headstone was nearly completely covered in stickers by 12pm. Only her name could be seen as visitors posed for photos at the grave.
Susan B. Anthony's grave gets all the "I Voted" stickers. At Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, Elizabeth Cady Stanton's grave is a bit lonely. pic.twitter.com/1L28WCQJwj 4.08pm GMTToday marks the first time in the 240 year history of the United States that voters will have the power to elect a woman as their president. When voters make their choice, or they will also close out an election in which women have been at the middle of nearly every conversation.
Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and the unprecedented election in which she has competed have inspired nearly every reaction on the spectrum: jubilation,relief, apathy, and disdain,misogyny, and outrage. nowadays on this blog, or we’re going to capture a slice of how American women are reacting as Clinton attempts to make history.
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Source: theguardian.com