they haven t endorsed a republican since richard nixon in 1972. there are few endorsements that still matter. really matter. in iowa, the des moines register endorsement matters. not only that, look at the artwork on the front page. all right. thank you, barnicle. it s tightening up in the midwest. the midwest, wisconsin, minnesota. but the wild card in this thing we ve already alluded to it is this storm. yeah. how does it impact early voting? power outages that might continue for a week to ten days through election day. that is a true wild card. yeah. mark. can we show this electoral map, if possible? sure. so willie asked if he doesn t get virginia, is it still possible? the answer is yes. give obama north carolina and florida, give him colorado, and give him ohio but don t give him virginia, that leaves it 262, romney, 256, obama. what if he wins iowa?
that s up from the previous record of 262 in 2010. but it s unclear if more female candidates will lead to more women representatives. two years ago, the number of women serving in congress dropped for the first time in 30 years, when women do run for office they tend to do so not in a bid to grab power but because they are driven by a desire to actually focus on the issues. according to rutgers university, 46% of women who ran for state senate four years ago did so because they wanted to focus on policy. that s compared with 36% of men. senator gillibrand, we were talking in the block before about bipartisan legislation and women have an ability to work together and perhaps if there were more women serving in congress we might get more done. it is not a particularly good climate, though, for women in congress. the national journal reports that one-third of senators characterized as centrist were women in 2010, but we do know there are going to be prominent retirees. senator kay bailey
i played it. it is okay. you are not good at it, are you? no. well, i scored two and then went 0 for 3 after that. i know what the secret is? you throw the bag vertically. you don t throw it horizontally. no, that s silly. the fastest badmitton smash in tournament play is 206 miles an hour. what? how is that possible? in 2009 there was a smash that was 262 miles an hour, but it wasn t in a tournament, so it doesn t count. you ask how it is possible. unlike tennis because of the feathers or whatever they are it slows down quickly, so it is 200 miles an hour at first, but by the time it reaches the other team it is slower than tay. so just upon impact with the racket it is going fast? yes. and then it slows down. so the average speed is still like one mile an hour? that s why nobody watches it of the. i believe that is kilometers per hour.
it is okay. you are not good at it, are you? no. well, i scored two and then went 0 for 3 after that. i know what the secret is? you throw the bag vertically. you don t throw it horizontally. no, that s silly. the fastest badmitton smash in tournament play is 206 miles an hour. what? how is that possible? in 2009 there was a smash that was 262 miles an hour, but it wasn t in a tournament, so it doesn t count. you ask how it is possible. unlike tennis because of the feathers or whatever they are it slows down quickly, so it is 200 miles an hour at first, but by the time it reaches the other team it is slower than tay. so just upon impact with the racket it is going fast? yes. and then it slows down. so the average speed is still like one mile an hour? that s why nobody watches it of the. i believe that is kilometers per hour. greg, olympian does not take
for the number of women who can actually end up in the u.s. house of representatives. they have been filing 295 women who have filed so far this year, beating the all-time record of 262. so i m hoping that number keeps rising. up next, one woman who found herself the victim of worst kind of politicking this week. tammy duckworth and the swings and arrows of a woman running for congress. the trivia question, who was the first woman elected to congress? the answer coming up.