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Anita Hill’s 1991 testimony in front of an all-male Senate Judiciary Committee – followed by 52 Senators giving Clarence Thomas a lifetime Supreme Court appointment – fueled a backlash that elected Barbara Boxer, Carol Moseley-Braun, Dianne Feinstein and Patty Murray to the U.S. Senate. 1992 was a “year of the woman” that tripled the number of woman Senators, and twenty years later the upcoming election may yield a similar result. The GOP House hearing on contraceptive funding demonstrated how out of step Republicans are with America, and Rush Limbaugh’s attack on Sandra Fluke may once again result in more women – who are still only 17% of the U.S. Senate today – being elected. Already, Democrats are running an impressive slate of progressive women this year – Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Baldwin, Chellie Pingree and Mazie Hirono, to name a few – that may capitalize on this anger. In a year when Republicans had been favored to re-take the Senate, their War on Women may prove to be an Achilles’ heel.
After Republicans failed to re-take the Senate in 2010 despite winning the House, political observers had agreed that 2012 would be more favorable. Democrats must defend 23 of the 33 Senate seats up this year, with seven of their incumbents retiring – versus three open seats on the Republican side. By sheer math alone, odds were the GOP would win back the Senate. But a weak Republican presidential field, along with a number of strong progressive woman candidates, could save the Senate for Democrats and help President Obama’s second term.
Read more: http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Could_2012_Be_Another_Year_of_the_Woman_in_the_Senate__9945.html
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