Yesterday featured a primary election throughout the country.\u00a0 Many incumbents, though not all, were voted down by their own party members.\u00a0 The tea-party of conservative populists scored big.\u00a0 The tea-party equivalent on the left seeking to defeat Democratic moderates didn\u2019t do so well:\u00a0 Arkansas incumbent senator Blanche Lincoln turned back an opponent heavily funded by labor unions.\u00a0 Conservative women in general were the big winners of the night.<\/p>\n
Nikki Haley has won more votes than the incumbent in a vicious race for governor in South Carolina, though she faces a run-off.\u00a0 A woman will run against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada, though it isn\u2019t clear which of two that will be.\u00a0 Ebay CEO Meg Whitman may be the Republican running for Arnold Schwarzenegger\u2019s office in California.<\/p>\n
How do you account for the success of conservative women in today\u2019s politics?\u00a0 Aren\u2019t liberals supposed to be the ones who are all feminist about everything?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday featured a primary election throughout the country.\u00a0 Many incumbents, though not all, were voted down by their own party members.\u00a0 The tea-party of conservative populists scored big.\u00a0 The tea-party equivalent on the left seeking to defeat Democratic moderates didn\u2019t do so well:\u00a0 Arkansas incumbent senator Blanche Lincoln turned back an opponent heavily funded by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1794,2371],"class_list":["post-5710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-primary-races-2010","tag-women-in-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n