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As a profession of the individual political-junkie, I was tollwütig season after the presidential primaries of 2008, because, well, in early 2007. This year, the choice for many reasons exciting, and above all of them is that for the first time in the history of our nation, the president is appointed Democratic either for a woman or an African American.

But the elections of 2008-1928, as chairman Calvin Coolidge will not attempt to re-election.

So, the last time that neither party had a candidate was planned 60 years. This choice was regarded as the first “modern” in the presidential race, as a candidate Herbert Hoover and Alfred E. Smith not only fight again, the nation, but also the employees of the media - in the form of radio spots and her week-Watch - for their messages to voters. But what seems more important is that women have the right to vote deserves eight years ago.

It was a long way to suffragists, Frances Wright, the problem at the end of 1820, and Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others that the torch in the wake of the mid-century. During each session of Congress from 1869 to 1919, the National American Woman Suffrage Association testified before Congress. That is 50 years - half a century! In 1915, 1918 and early 1919, national legislation granting a right of women to vote, which was defeated. It was not President Woodrow Wilson called a special meeting of the Congress in May 1919, an amendment to the Constitution, women the right to vote was passed and ratified by the States in time for the presidential elections of 1920.

In the context of this year, in the first place, the season, the suffragists’ performance is all the more important. I can not help but by the fact that my grandmother had 25 years before that the right to choose. I can not help but ask myself what they would think if they were here to see that a woman has a 50-50 chance that the nomination of his party. And I can not help but ask the question, why Hillary Clinton, the support of the production comes mostly women, over 50 years.

The other side of this question is, why Barack Obama, the support of white men and young women in the Democratic Party. Senator Obama is clearly a movement with its refreshing and inspiring message, and I do not want that to the success and reduction of the qualifications of his party for the nomination. But since then, the candidates do not differ fundamentally on issues, there must be something else happens here. Once we are from many angles, and after listening to experts pontificate, in my view, cross, I can only draw a conclusion on the male Democratic voters: that the river sexism runs deep across the country, when I ever imagined. The cell is a very personal choice, but the numbers and demographics should be added.

As Senator Clinton does not draw among young women of the vote, I imagine that to a certain extent by the success of our generation to break glass ceilings for our daughters and grand-daughters. I am curious to know if, as is often the case with the feminist battles fought and we won, the kind of politics plays no role in the lives of young women.

Retrospective of Susan B. Anthony, and even in my own grandmother, I wonder how far we really are. Since 1945, worldwide, 39 women were prime minister and 38 women have served as president. One of these days - maybe even this year - the United States, Sri Lanka, Iceland, Chile and Liberia, among others.