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Posted on 10/27/2010 4:36:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The female candidates, commentators and influencers who matter--and provoke chatter--most.
The midterm elections are a week away, and this year an overwhelming number of female candidates, commentators and influencers are commanding the headlines, brashly driving the conversation and laboring to deliver who will control the Senate, the House and the future direction of the country.
The forces that put us in this position come in the form of various political baronesses and upstarts that make up this Top 25 Power Women of Elections 2010. A great many of these mighty women appear on Forbes' list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women, including Tea Party queenmaker Sarah Palin, First Lady Michelle Obama and Rachel Maddow, a cable news anchor with a beef against "extremists" in politics.
Yet the polarizing are, in some ways, those who matter most. Or at least provoke chatter most. Consider Mama Grizzly Sharron Angle, clawing at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's seat from Nevada and whose challenge to the incumbent is to "man up." Or contender for the U.S. Senate from Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, whose open ignorance or misreading of the First Amendment’s guarantee of separation of church and state--"You're telling me that's in the First Amendment?"--caused a 10-alarm fire on the airwaves and Internet.
Or Maureen Dowd, who coined the phrase "Mean Girls" of the midterms (talking about the Tea Party sorority), saying that they have replaced "Hope with Spite and Cool with Cold." Or the California governor's race, where Republican Meg Whitman was labeled a "whore" by her Democratic challenger's aide.
The Top 25 Most Powerful Women Of The Midterm Elections To rank this list of powerful women, we looked at both their reach--in terms of constituency and audience size--and buzz--Google searches...
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Peachy.
I go away for the evening and return to find myself suffering the Digital Inquisition.
[lousy bunch of cyber-Torquemadas]....:-P
The wide one was very “Bosch”, btw.
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“So, now she’s tall? “
He’s just rudely revealing my shape-shifter secret.
I hope it didn’t get too unbearable before I stopped the evil 50mm (Torquemada) from making you fat or tall. The guy’s outa control, I tell ya.
Historically speaking, men will fight for their king but they will joyously fight and die for their queen.
There’s still something left of that innate, subconscious “chivalry” thing.
Oh, I’m sure he’ll find a way to distort me diagonally, eventually....:))
[eh...what’s a little torture, between friends?]
LOL
That’s what makes her truly beautiful.
You’re right about that.
Thank goodness.
Oh, LOL. That was you, dear Salamander.
OH! That was rhetorical! Never mind.
The lessons you learn in biker bars.....LOL
Yeah.
Lord knows what he’ll reveal next.
;]
;D
[he’s just really hoping I’ll bring out the whips and chains]
So 50mm likes them too?
Cool. ;-P
I do seem to attract “that type”.
[maybe it’s ~me~ that’s the problem]....LOL
It’s never occurred to you that it’s everybody else? In my case, I’m sure it’s everybody else. Really. :-D
That works for me too.
/evil grin
The babes love the "out-of-control" guys. Personal experience.
So you’re a real wild man, huh?
I think you’re just a cute, cuddly, fun flirt.
We really should stop hijacking this thread. It r series politikal tred. [adjusts halo]
Go Sarah!
We aim to please.
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