James Cañón

Is America ready for a Female President?

In case you haven’t read it yet, Elayne Boosler, writing on her blog on Huffington Post, answered this question properly and categorically.
Read the terrific article here.

IN 1984, women reached a milestone in this country when Geraldine Ferraro was chosen the first female to run on a major party ticket for vice president. She paved the way for others to come behind her, yet, buy ambien two decades later, there has not been another woman on a major party ticket during a presidential election.

Is the country ready for a woman at the top of the ticket? If so, are there women in the political pipeline who are ready to run, or are females as far away as they were 20 years ago? To answer these questions, we need to look at the political process from the top down and the bottom up.

The obstacles to climbing the political ladder begin early for women and range from public perceptions of them as leaders to lack of party support. The real power brokers behind who runs for office and who doesn’t are the officials of the Democratic and Republican parties. By and large, they determine which candidates will compete. When Elizabeth Dole, wife of former-Sen. Robert Dole (R.-Kan.), the 1996 Republican presidential candidate, ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, she proved that without party support--financial and organizational--it is nearly adderall impossible to become a viable national candidate. Dole dropped out of the race citing lack of money.