MANCHESTER, N.H. — New Hampshire’s election of the nation’s first all-female congressional delegation was the most dramatic example of a phenomenon that swept the country Tuesday, as female voters flexed their muscle in the presidential race and female candidates earned a record number of seats in the US Senate and House of Representatives.
The results tick off like a Guinness World Records of electoral feats: Eleven women claimed US Senate seats, five of them newcomers, bringing their number to a record 20. One, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, rallied to defeat the man who said a woman could not get pregnant from legitimate rape. Four women, Elizabeth Warren among them, took seats in states that had never before sent women to the Senate.
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It will be a great day when such elections do not cause articles such as this to be written! It is pretty cool though!
Live free or die. . . uh huh...... wonder how many guys are going to step over the borders into Maine or Vermont. . . or even Quebec. . . . How come the Glob didn't assign a guy to write up this gender-biased topic?