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6:40 = • Bluesky • goodauthority.org "Get in losers, we're doing re-search" The rise of internet campaigns and social media over the last decade allowed re- searchers access to something new: demographics and biographies on the candidates who lost. A number of colleagues and I began to collect information about these also-rans, using information from Ballotpedia, and other digital outlets. We also relied on interest groups like Women Donors Network, Facebook candidate pro-files, and the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) and other academic projects. We focused on women and racial/ethnic minority candidates in state legislatures - and thousands of candidates from diverse backgrounds across nearly all 50 states (in contrast to the dozens of candidates elected to the U.S. Congress). Similar to Congress, state legislatures suffer from systematic underrepresentation of women and racial/ ethnic minorities, so we looked here for evidence of the bias against minority candidates. What we and other scholars found was surprising.
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