Running As a Woman by Linda Witt & Karen M. Paget

Author:Linda Witt & Karen M. Paget
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Free Press
Published: 1994-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Pennsylvania (Yeakel/Specter) a

19 54 (44) b 46 (56)

California (Boxer/Herschensohn)

20 60 (42)

40 (60)

California (Feinstein/Seymour)

21

64 (47)

36 (53)

Illinois (Moseley-Braun/Williamson)

20

64 (54)

36 (46)

Washington (Murray/Chandler)

23

56 (51)

44 (49)

aAll women candidates listed in this table were Democrats.

bYoung mens votes (%) in parentheses.

Source : Voter Research & Surveys exit polls, taken on Election Day, 1992. VRS is an association of ABC News, CNN, CBS News, and NBC News.

The two incumbent senators, one Republican and one Democrat, have had good support from older women. Senators Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas and Barbara Mikulski of Maryland have both been reelected to second terms. Kassebaum speculates that older women support her because they’ve “watched me grow up.” As the daughter of Republican presidential candidate Alf Landon, Kassebaum had been in the public eye for many years before she ran for office. “It’s my own age group I have trouble with,” she laments. Yet in her first reelection bid for the Senate, she did extremely well with women in all age groups. 52

TABLE 7-2

Older Women’s (60+) Votes for Women Candidates in 1992 (%)

State %

Total Vote

Democrat

Republican

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