{"id":12424,"date":"2020-10-23T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12424"},"modified":"2020-10-27T22:53:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T03:53:29","slug":"iowas-new-election-gender-imbalance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/iowas-new-election-gender-imbalance\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa’s new election gender imbalance"},"content":{"rendered":"

After years and years of Iowa getting tsk-tsked<\/a> for never electing a woman to Congress (I went into some reasoning for this in 2012<\/a>), we shouldn’t let this year go by without pointing something out:\u00a0Seven of the 10 major-party candidates running for Iowa’s five federal seats this election cycle are women.\u00a0Iowa’s delegation will be either 3-3 or 4-2 women depending on the 3rd District race.<\/p>\n

If Joni Ernst loses to Theresa Greenfield, she will become the third woman ever to lose a Senate seat to a woman (behind Elizabeth Dole in NC and Kelly Ayotte in NH)*. She would be Iowa’s first one-term senator since 1984 \u2014 but Iowa’s only HAD three senators since 1984, when Tom Harkin’s win was the third of three in a row ousting one-term incumbents. If Ernst wins, she’ll still be Iowa’s first female U.S. senator.<\/p>\n

There’s a more personal milestone here, too: The 1st Congressional District race is the first one where both candidates are younger than I am. I didn’t** hold that against them. (Annoying my phone on a college football Saturday, on the other hand…)<\/p>\n

For locality reasons, I’ll also point out that Christina Blackcloud<\/a>, the Democratic candidate for Tama County’s Iowa House district, would be the first Native American in the Legislature if she unseats multi-term incumbent Dean Fisher. Jane Svoboda<\/a> is the only woman who has represented Tama County in the Legislature (1987-90).<\/p>\n

* UPDATE 10\/27: Maine’s Susan Collins is in the same boat.
\n** Yes, past tense<\/a>. Had to break with tradition for a couple reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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