As polls close in New Hampshire, further_maura from RepresentWomen reflects on Iowa. Senators Warren and Klobuchar have now joined a mere handful of women who have won primary delegates in U.S. history.
While hundreds-off from the needed delegates to clinch the nomination, Chisholm hoped for a
to use her 152 delegates to negotiate a Black running mate, a woman Cabinet Secretary and a Native American Secretary of the Interior. Unfortunately, Senator McGovern had 1,729 delegates and easily received the nomination without Chisholm’s delegates or requests., “not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman to lived in the 20th century and dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.
ran in the 1976 Democratic Primary as a single-issue protest candidate: an anti-abortion candidate voicing her opposition to the passing ofin 1973 and the party’s pro-choice platform. McCormack won votes in five states and won a total of 22 delegates during the primary process, and used her time at the Convention to voice her opposition to. McCormack ran for president again in 1980, as the Right to Life Party nominee.
Of course, the more recent history of women running for president begins in 2008, when the Democratic Primary became a battle for delegates between then-Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. On June 7, 2008, ceded her loss and urged her supporters to back Obama’s bid for the presidency, having won 1,920 delegates.
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