European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 10, 1994 . The stars and strides Page 7 women found to win just As often As men by the Washington Post Washington women can and do win As often As men in elections. That s the myth shattering message of a study of More than 50,000 candidacies for Congress and the state Legislatures released thursday by the National women s political caucus. The report throws cold water on a slew of cliches ranging from the belief that the Odds Are stacked against female candidates to the notion that 1992 was a breakthrough year of  the study written by Jody Newman the political caucus executive director says that electoral Success has nothing to do with sex. When male incumbents were compared to female incumbents men running for open seats to women running for open seats and male Chal lengers to female challengers women won As High a percentage of their races As  the reason the Road seems rougher for women Newman said is that most incumbents Are men and incumbents win far More often than challengers and open seat candidate women now hold 11 percent of the House seats 7 percent of the Senate seats 8 percent of the governorships 22 percent of the seats in state houses of representatives and 17 percent in state senates. The main reason the percentages Are so Low the study concluded is not that women candidates Don t win elections but that so few women have  checking the sex of All major party Gen eral election candidates for the . House since 1972 and for the state Legislatures since 1986 50,563 in All the study found a striking Simi Larity Between the percentage of officeholders at each level and the percentage of candidates who Are women. Bush s son Hugh Rodham win spots in Florida races Miami a Jeb Bush finished the gop gubernatorial primary race Well ahead of his Competition but failed to get enough of the vote to avoid a Runoff. Gov. Lawton Chiles easily won the democratic nomination. Another candidate with White House connections first brother in Law Hugh Rodham won a democratic Runoff spot in a four Way race to Challenge first term Republican sen. Connie Mack. Mack was unopposed in his primary. Bush the 41-year-old son of former president Bush came within 4 percentage Points of winning the Nomi nation outright in thursday s primary. He was confident enough to Call his dad. I called him and told him he can go to sleep that he did t have to worry about it said Bush a Miami Developer " Abush whose brother George w. Goes up against democratic gov. Ann Richards in Texas this fall will face Secretary of state Jim Smith in a oct. 4 Runoff. But he talked about that race As if it were a formality and urged republicans to concentrate instead on beat in Chiles. We need to begin the process of uniting the party and focusing on the general election he said. Chiles who has never lost an election in 35 year of Florida politics has seen his sagging popularity boosted by his handling of the cuban refugee crisis. We Are looking Forward to this Campaign More than any other Campaign we be Ever had the governor said. We re going to have that Clear Choice for  with 99 percent of the precincts reporting Bush had 406,459 votes or 46 percent and Smith had 164,527 votes or 18 percent. Five others trailed. On the democratic Side Chiles received 72 percent of the vote and anti government activist Jack Gargan collected a surprising 28 percent a protest vote that could signal trouble for Chiles in november. 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