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Did Women and Candidates of Color Lead or Ride the Democratic Wave in 2018?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2020

Bernard L. Fraga Open the ORCID record for Bernard L. Fraga [Opens in a new window] ,
Paru Shah  and
Eric Gonzalez Juenke Open the ORCID record for Eric Gonzalez Juenke [Opens in a new window]
Bernard L. Fraga
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Emory University
Paru Shah
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Eric Gonzalez Juenke
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
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Headlines touted a “wave” of women and minority candidates running in the 2018 elections, leading some to conclude that 2018 was the new “year of the woman” and perhaps “year of the candidate of color” (Lai et al. 2018). In fact, the number of women and candidates of color contesting US House elections was so high in 2018 that for the first time on record, White men were the minority of Democratic House nominees (Schneider 2018). Surveys taken immediately before the 2018 midterm elections indicated that women of color were the “ideal candidates” for Democrats, suggesting a changing voter demand for a more diverse field of candidates (Easley 2018).

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Symposium: State Legislative Elections of 2018
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , July 2020 , pp. 435 - 439
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© American Political Science Association 2020

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