Hillary Clinton Lies Again, CMON CHECK YOUR FACTS!
"Remember, Jeannette Rankin was elected before women could vote. So who says men don't vote for a woman?"
--Sen. Hillary Clinton, speech in Missoula, Montana, April 6, 2008.
The Facts
Jeannette Rankin became the first ever woman elected to Congress, in 1916. She represented Montana in the House of Representatives for just one term, losing her seat at the following election after she voted against U.S. entry into World War I. A Republican and lifelong pacifist, she was elected again in 1940, and was the only member of Congress to oppose U.S. entry into World War II.
As a campaigner for women's rights, Rankin was a role model for Hillary Clinton. But the New York senator was wrong in saying that Rankin "was elected before women could vote." As several bloggers have pointed out, here and here, women won the right to vote in Montana in 1914, soon after it became a state. Other states that had granted women the right to vote by 1916 included Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Illinois. Women throughout the United States won the right to vote in 1920 with the passage of the 19th amendment.
While it is true that a lot of men voted for Rankin, it was women who gave her the decisive edge in the 1916 election, according to contemporaneous news reports. A Nov. 19, 1916 report in The New York Times concluded on the basis of "an examination of the election returns...that the women elected Miss Rankin."
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Hillary Clinton lying about being crucial in the bringing of pease to Northern Ireland.
"I went [to Northern Ireland] more than my husband did. I was working to help change the atmosphere among people because leaders alone rarely make peace. They have to bring people along who believe peace is in their interests. I remember a meeting that I pulled together in Belfast, in the town hall there, bringing together for the first time Catholics and Protestants..."
--Hillary Clinton, Nashua, N.H. Jan. 6, 2008.
