{"id":335,"date":"2006-04-13T08:56:23","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T16:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=335"},"modified":"2006-04-13T09:11:28","modified_gmt":"2006-04-13T17:11:28","slug":"breaking-the-political-glass-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/04\/13\/breaking-the-political-glass-ceiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_04_13_palmer.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_04_13_uprising.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smu.edu\/smunews\/womenincongress\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=60% src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0415950880.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V54590062_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><em>GUEST: Barbara Palmer is assistant professor at American University and an affiliated faculty member at the Women and Politics Institute, co-author of &#8220;Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling: Women and Congressional Elections.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week we spoke with Democratic candidate for Congress Francine Busby in the first Congressional race of the year. Busby is a former Republican who now pledges alliegance to the Democratic party. San Diego&#8217;s special election, which took place yesterday, was to replace the disgraced Randy &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham who pleaded guilty to charges of bribery and stepped down last year. Busby did not win the 50% required to claim the position outright. She did finish in first place, at 44%, in the heavily Republican district. Her closest rival, Republican Brian Bilbray, received 15%. There will be a run-off in June. <\/p>\n<p>If Francine Busby wins the June runoff, she may become only the 68th woman in the 435-strong House of Representatives. We turn next to the co-author of a new book, &#8220;Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling: Women and Congressional Elections.&#8221; The authors of the book looked at every race with a woman candidate from 1956 through 2004, to figure out where women won &#8211; and why. They found that the single biggest barrier for women was the fact that most incumbents are men &#8211; and almost all incumbents win. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smu.edu\/smunews\/womenincongress\/\">click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Barbara Palmer is assistant professor at American University and an affiliated faculty member at the Women and Politics Institute, co-author of &#8220;Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling: Women and Congressional Elections.&#8221; Last week we spoke with Democratic candidate for Congress Francine Busby in the first Congressional race of the year. Busby is a former Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}