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2012 Presidential Watch
CAWP provides information about women under serious consideration for the nation’s highest offices. We do not support or endorse candidates.
General Resources
Resources about women presidential and vice presidential candidates and leaders.
- Fact Sheet on Women Who've Run for President and Vice President
- Polling Data on the question of how Americans feel about a woman as a presidential candidate
- From the NPR Series on Historic Presidential Campaigns
- Women Leaders Around the World
- "She's The Candidate! A Woman for President"
By Ruth B. Mandel, Director, Eagleton Institute of Politics and CAWP Senior Scholar. This chapter about women presidential candidates is published in Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change, edited by Barbara Kellerman and Deborah L. Rhode (Jossey-Bass, 2007).
2008 Presidential Watch Archive
This section provides information about the historic 2008 presidential election, including the the presidential candidacy of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and vice presidential candidacy of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
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