Center for American Women and Politics, 11n6, 25, 39n13, 39n16, 40n17–18, 42, 58, 77n2, 77n4, 78n13, 79n28, 102, 118, 136, 160n2

Center for Responsive Politics, 11n2, 39n10, 70, 82n54, 83n59, 83n62, 88, 111n6, 120

Cheney, Richard, 62

Chisholm, Shirley, 19–20

Clift, Eleanor, 26, 60, 146n3

Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 1–2, 9, 62, 73, 108, 132, 135, 138–145, 146n6, 147–148, 158

Common Cause, 26

competitive elections, 22, 101–103, 121–122, 125

Conway, M. Margaret, xiii, 39n15, 57, 77n5, 80n38

congressional donors, 80n36, 88–89

Congressional Quarterly, 56, 102–103, 111n1, 112n12, 122–123, 128

Conover, Pamela, 106

Cook, Elizabeth, 106

Cooper, Kenneth, 77n1

COPE. See also lead PACs, 35, 39n14, 40n23

Corrado, Anthony, 105

cost of campaigning, 20–21

Costain, Anne, 7, 15, 24, 32

Day, Christine, 28, 35, 87, 93, 111n2, 113n14, 140

de Figueiredo, John M., 111n5

DeLauro, Rosa, 53, 78n18, 79n23, 147

Democratic Party, 4–5, 32–37, 42, 44, 47, 49, 51–52, 64–65, 69, 74–76, 86, 95, 104, 116n30, 123–125, 129, 136–140, 143–144, 148, 156–158

descriptive representation, 26, 36, 47

Dodd, Lawrence C., xiii–xiv, 72

Elder, Shirley, 15

elections

of 1986, 30–31, 42, 50–51, 53, 55–56, 66, 150

of 1988, 4, 30–31, 33, 40–50, 56, 66, 132

of 1990, 30–31, 33, 42, 44, 50, 56, 66–67

of 1992, 7, 30–31, 38n7, 42–48, 50, 56, 60, 66, 77n1, 77n3, 136

of 1994, 30–31, 34, 50, 55–56, 64–66

of 1996, 4, 30–31, 34, 40n23, 50–51, 56, 64–67, 78, 87, 89, 111n2

of 1998, 30–31, 34, 56, 65–67, 136

of 2000, 29–31, 34, 40n23, 49, 56–58, 65–67, 72, 92–94, 96–102, 104, 108, 118–120, 124, 126–132

of 2002, 29–31, 34, 47, 56, 58, 61, 65–68, 70–72, 81n43, 83n58, 94, 99–100, 104–105, 107–109, 113n13, 118–119, 124–126, 129–130