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EMILY's List's Political Opportunity Program (POP) helps pro-choice Democratic women run and win for state and local office. POP seeks out and asks qualified pro-choice Democratic women to run for office. Since its inception in 2001, POP has held 158 trainings in 35 states, and trained a total of 5,550 people.

This cycle alone, POP trained 1,470 people at 46 trainings across the country.

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New Hampshire Senate makes history

ABC News, December 7, 2008
This week, at the official swearing-in ceremony for the senators elected on Nov. 4, New Hampshire became the first state in the nation to have a legislature with a female majority.

"As the first-in-the-nation primary state, we are always glad to lead the way," state Senate President Sylvia Larsen said from her perch at the front of the room last Thursday.

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The year of the woman in Maine

KENNEBEC JOURNAL MORNING SENTINEL, December 4, 2008
Family and friends squeezed into folding chairs in the Senate chamber to watch as Sen. Elizabeth Mitchell, D-Vassalboro, became the first woman in the country to have been selected by her peers to serve first as House Speaker and now Senate president.

Over in the House, Rep. Hannah Pingree, D-North Haven, was sworn in as House Speaker. Her mother, U.S. Rep.-elect Chellie Pingree, watched her 32-year-old daughter take the oath.

"It is the year of the woman in Maine," Speaker Hannah Pingree said.

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Colorado tops percentage of women state legislators as gains inch forward

COLORADO INDEPENDENT, November 17, 2008
Colorado has the highest percentage of women serving as state legislators this year, barely edging out Vermont and New Hampshire, according to a Christian Science Monitor article published Sunday. Considering both the state House and Senate, 38 percent of Colorado’s lawmakers are women, ahead of Vermont’s 37.8 percent and New Hampshire’s 37.7 percent.

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