Election results in the US: The real winners are the women
"I would like to thank every US citizen who participated in the elections," said Barack Obama in his speech after the 2012 election victory. Looking more closely at the results, he has to thank one half of the population: the women , Because here the election result is even clearer: 55 percent of women in America gave the Democrats their votewhile its challenger Mitt Romney had only 44 percent female voters. Reason for this result may be not least the handling of women's issues in the Republicans: Who ignores issues such as family and gender equality or even spread crude theses on abortion (as some party colleagues Mitt Romneys have done in recent weeks), which must count the punishment of female voters.
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The Senate elections, which took place parallel to the presidential election, also showed the growing influence of women: in this body of Congress, two senators from each state sit as representatives - on November 6, one third of the senate posts was re-elected. The expected result: 18 of the 100 Senate posts will probably be filled by women - more than ever in American history. Although these are still relatively few in view of the proportion of the population, they are heading in the right direction. And: These women are strikingly self-confident and aggressive, they will certainly make themselves heard in the Senate.
Tammy Baldwin, the first self-confessed homosexual in the US Senate
© Hauck / ReutersA role could play that they have always been used to fighting - some are not only disadvantaged because of their gender. For example, with Democrat Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin, not only was a woman elected a senator for the first time, she is also the first senator who is open to her homosexuality - and again under cheering in her victory speech emphasized. Also Hawaii sends with Mazie K. Hirono a woman in the senate - she is the first woman there with Asian roots. Interestingly, the (expected) result in North Dakota: Traditionally, the Republicans have the nose here - and although this time also chose 58.7% of people Mitt Romney, the narrow majority in the Senate election, the Democrat Heidi Heitkamp pulled the male candidate the Republican. A small sensation occurred in swing state New Hampshire: Here, in the election for the House of Representatives (the second organ of the US Congress), two women of the Democrats were elected. Since there are already two New Hampshire women in the Senate, sends for the first time a US state a fully female delegation to the US Congress.
The politicians in the US, especially the Republicans, will have to get used to the fact that women have an ever greater influence on the elections and politics. And who knows? Maybe America will soon be ready for the first president, and thousands are already promoting and supporting a "Hillary2016" campaign via Twitter.
