Vote in a US Election where the Democrat and Republican Candidates for President are Both Women

What an exciting election run-up with Hillary running for Prez and now Sarah in line for the vice presidency. Some day….

Except from MSNBC/AP

Former Texas governor Ann Richards dies at 73

Flamboyant, outspoken homemaker became national political star

Updated: 11:04 p.m. ET Sept 13, 2006

AUSTIN, Texas – Former Gov. Ann Richards, the witty and flamboyant Democrat who went from homemaker to national political celebrity, died Wednesday night after a battle with cancer, a family spokeswoman said. She was 73.
The silver-haired, silver-tongued Richards said she entered politics to help others — especially women and minorities who were often ignored by Texas’ male-dominated establishment.

“I did not want my tombstone to read, ’She kept a really clean house.’ I think I’d like them to remember me by saying, ’She opened government to everyone,”’ Richards said shortly before leaving office in January 1995.

She grabbed the national spotlight with her keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention when she was the Texas state treasurer. Richards won cheers from delegates when she reminded them that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, “only backwards and in high heels.”

Richards rose to the governorship with a come-from-behind victory over millionaire cowboy Clayton Williams in 1990. She cracked a half-century male grip on the governor’s mansion and celebrated by holding up a T-shirt that showed the state Capitol and read: “A woman’s place is in the dome.”

In four years as governor, Richards championed what she called the “New Texas,” appointing more women and more minorities to state posts than any of her predecessors.

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URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14826109/

Has a “National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection” for the years 1848 – 1921.

Check it out!
http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html

That a lot of hidden anti-women feelings wouldl be revealed…..

When my grandmother was a young woman, it was illegal for her to vote at all because she was female!

How would our world (or at least attitudes toward women) change if some day the only choice for President would be a woman?

Wouldn’t that be something?