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Kentucky

SheilaT

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3. And keep in mind,

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Sat Apr 4, 2015, 02:23 PM

Apr 2015

it was widely assumed that most Republican women would cross party lines to vote for a woman, Alison Lundergan Grimes, and that didn't happen.

Grimes's loss, as well as Wendy Davis's in Texas, should make people understand that there is not as huge a yearning for women Senators, Governors, or Presidents as they think.

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