Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caucus members were really impressed by the presidential candidates appearances at their national convention at the Boston Sheraton the last weekend in June. Some see it as a sign that the two-year-old caucus is beginning to be recognized by the political status quo. They figure that the candidates must think the caucus has some political punch if they took the trouble to show up at the convention. Others wonder whether the speeches were just a lot of empty words and political manipulation...
...fact remains that the women's caucus has stopped patting itself on the back for existing as it did at its founding convention in Houston two years ago and begun to get down to the business of practical politics, which, in the opinion of most members, means dealing with...
...NWPC's line on men has been in flux since the Houston convention. Elective strategy has rotated on the question of whether or not to support male candidates. The original thrust of caucus policy was to get women into political office. The caucus decided that if a woman were running against a man, and the caucus could in in good conscience bank the women, it would under no circumstances back...
...convention was on ways of getting the Equal Rights Amendment passed. Most members seem to believe that a woman who says she will support ERA is more trustworthy than a man who makes that claim, but if a conservative woman were running against a pro. ERA man, the caucus would not necessarily rule out backing the man. In any case, in most strategic races a woman's candidacy is not in question, so the caucus usually must choose between...
Political strategy aside. the NWPC is becoming more receptive to men because it seems that men are showing more interest in the caucus. Many members have found that made politicians started taking the caucus more seriously when it scored several successes in pushing its candidates for Congressional elections last year...