The presidentselected Harrisas his running mate in August 2020, a historic pick that made her the first Black woman selected as a vice presidential candidate for a major party. She was also the first South Asian nominee on a presidential ticket and just the third woman nominated for vice pres...
Sonia Johnson is a feminist and the founder of Mormons for the Equal Rights Amendment. She was excommunicated by the Mormon Church in 1979 for her political activism. Running for president in 1984 on the Citizens Party platform, she received 72,200 votes in 19 states, though her party was ...
It’s also an Election Day tradition for candidates to meet up at Manny’s before election results come in. “If you’ve ever run for office before, you’ve been to Manny’s,” said Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, adding he comes other days of the year, too, for...
She is also known for her essays, including A Room of One's Own (1929), in which she wrote the much-quoted dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolf became one of the central subjects of the 1970s movement of feminist criticism ...
But that’s exactly what Chicago resident Francisco Rendon was, running an “office” in a body shop, full of random tools and pills, a trash can for a sink, and a leather love seat standing in for an examination chair. Rendon claimed he had a dental license from Mexico, but Ch...
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This is also true of the general election. In some states ease of entry makes it possible for many parties to have candidates on the ballot for President and Vice-President; in other states only the major parties can qualify. In some years even incumbents running for re-election — for ...
general election may apply for a recount, provided that the difference between the votes cast for the applying candidate and a candidate declared elected is less than 20 percent of the total votes cast in the towns which comprise the office to be recounted," according toNew Hampshire election ...
Here are 13 musicians who ran for political office. Amongst all the hype, and negative ads flooding your TV and social media, it's possible that you've got a musician running for office in your town or state, hoping to make a difference. ...
"I think she wouldn't make as many mistakes. She is far more experienced now in all the relevant ways than I was when I took office." Hillary was a second-term U.S. senator serving on the Senate Armed Services Committee, a staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund, served on ...