Tag: Mark Penn

Democrats promised more investigations into the president if they took back the House; Former Clinton adviser Mark Penn on what happens next.

But equally notable is how many of the hundreds of mostly Democratic women running are political outsiders, tossing the old playbook aside that said female candidates have to be twice as qualified, twice as polished, and twice as careful as their male counterparts to run. McGrath already beat the mayor of the district's biggest city, Lexington, in the Democratic primary, even though he had the backing of the national party. "I served as a U.S. Marine Corps officer for 24 years. "And we need people in office right now who care more about getting the mission done for our country than their own political party, or themselves." Debbie Walsh, director of the Rutgers' Center for American Women and Politics, said the majority of women who were elected during the last "Year of the Women," in 1992, had worked their way up from state legislatures. Betsy Dirksen Londrigan won her crowded Illinois House primary after campaigning on health care as a rallying cry. Now, her kids wear "Mama for Congress" T-shirts. About what kind of clothes I should wear, how I should wear my hair,” said Hill, a Democrat. “The whole playbook is gone,” Hill said. So it freed me up to run the race I want to run.”