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Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for August 18, 2025
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August 18, 2025: One hundred and five (105) years ago on August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in the United States. The ratification came in dramatic fashion, as the amendment needed just one more state to vote in favor, and Tennessee passed it by a one vote margin. The Tennessee State Senate had tried and failed to pass the amendment twice to this point, and a third try was to begin. A state representative named Harry T. Burn had been convinced to vote against it previously. In this third try however, he claims that his mother sent him a letter telling him to vote in favor of the amendment. Burn listened to his mother, and because of his changed vote, the amendment passed.
While this did make women’s suffrage constitutional, many states and territories had already given women the right to vote prior to this. Women and men had been fighting for women’s suffrage since the middle of the 19th century. In fact, Jeannette Rankin was the first woman to be elected to the House of Representatives in 1916. That is four years prior to the Nineteenth Amendment’s ratification.[1][2][3]
Scott Rasmussen is the president of RMG Research, Inc. and founder of the Napolitan Institute.
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