I agree with Mike S and others that the Powerpoint is too lengthy and dense. I think Republicans aren't the only ones whose attention will begin to wander after a certain point.
A specific criticism I have relates to the points at which you list states which, prior to 1920, allowed women to vote. These should be edited to make clear that …
I agree with Mike S and others that the Powerpoint is too lengthy and dense. I think Republicans aren't the only ones whose attention will begin to wander after a certain point.
A specific criticism I have relates to the points at which you list states which, prior to 1920, allowed women to vote. These should be edited to make clear that the right to vote in a given state allowing women to vote was only for state and, I think, local elections. Women still were not legally allowed to vote in federal elections.
Excerpt from an interesting article: "A 1916 article in the Ladies’ Home Journal presented the potential significance of the women’s vote: “Four million women will have the privilege to vote for a President of the United States this year… These four million women represent twelve states, which cast ninety-one ballots in the electoral college which elects the President. As a President must receive two hundred and sixty-six electoral-college votes necessary to a choice, the twelve equal-suffrage states represent little more than one-third of the total necessary to a choice. At the last Presidential election, in 1912, just one-half, six, of the present total of states gave the privilege to women to vote, and those states cast only thirty-seven electoral votes… "
I agree with Mike S and others that the Powerpoint is too lengthy and dense. I think Republicans aren't the only ones whose attention will begin to wander after a certain point.
A specific criticism I have relates to the points at which you list states which, prior to 1920, allowed women to vote. These should be edited to make clear that the right to vote in a given state allowing women to vote was only for state and, I think, local elections. Women still were not legally allowed to vote in federal elections.
That’s not true because the first congresswoman was elected in 1917
I stand corrected.
Excerpt from an interesting article: "A 1916 article in the Ladies’ Home Journal presented the potential significance of the women’s vote: “Four million women will have the privilege to vote for a President of the United States this year… These four million women represent twelve states, which cast ninety-one ballots in the electoral college which elects the President. As a President must receive two hundred and sixty-six electoral-college votes necessary to a choice, the twelve equal-suffrage states represent little more than one-third of the total necessary to a choice. At the last Presidential election, in 1912, just one-half, six, of the present total of states gave the privilege to women to vote, and those states cast only thirty-seven electoral votes… "
https://library.whitman.edu/blog/presidential-election-1916/