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Power Women Of Elections 2010 (Guess who is #1?)
Forbes ^ | October 26, 2010 | Meghan Casserly

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Parties; State and Local; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2010; congress; democrats; michelleobama; msm; palin; sarahpalin; sharronangle
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To: TheOldLady
I'm not just cute, I'm a darn good looking hunk of a man.


121 posted on 10/28/2010 3:13:19 PM PDT by 50mm (I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.)
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To: Salamander
he’s just really hoping I’ll bring out the whips and chains

I've been very bad, mistress. >:-|

122 posted on 10/28/2010 3:16:02 PM PDT by 50mm (I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.)
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To: 50mm

OMGosh, you’re also dead! [sobs uncontrollably]


123 posted on 10/28/2010 3:34:24 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady
OMGosh, you’re also dead! [sobs uncontrollably]

No, no, no! That was my twin Paul who died!

124 posted on 10/28/2010 3:37:25 PM PDT by 50mm (I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.)
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To: 50mm

Phew! So you’re not dead after all.

Paul’s twin, huh.

So you’re 85 years old. You’re remarkably well preserved. I’m impressed!


125 posted on 10/28/2010 3:41:32 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

Botox, Hair Color For men, and cosmetic surgery, baby!


126 posted on 10/28/2010 3:43:07 PM PDT by 50mm (I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.)
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To: DelaWhere
She kept all options - including nuclear - actively on the table without flinching.

Apparently you equate militarism with Conservatism. It's not. Trotsky was quite a militarist. They were both not just socialists by policy, but actual members of the Socialist International.

127 posted on 10/28/2010 3:43:27 PM PDT by triumphant values (Never criticize that to your right.)
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To: DelaWhere
She was the ‘Iron Lady’ before Thatcher was too. She kept all options - including nuclear - actively on the table ...

Also this here is just bad history as Israel had never had it disclosed they had nuclear weapons at the time of her term of her being Prime Minister.

128 posted on 10/28/2010 3:50:51 PM PDT by triumphant values (Never criticize that to your right.)
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To: triumphant values

>>>Also this here is just bad history as Israel had never had it disclosed they had nuclear weapons at the time of her term of her being Prime Minister<<<

LOL If you will notice, they still don’t.

Her diplomatic statement ‘all arms at our disposal’ was pretty clear.


129 posted on 10/28/2010 4:35:24 PM PDT by DelaWhere (Better to be prepared one year early than one day late!)
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To: triumphant values

>>>Apparently you equate militarism with Conservatism<<<

Only one who mentioned Conservatism is YOU!


130 posted on 10/28/2010 4:37:22 PM PDT by DelaWhere (Better to be prepared one year early than one day late!)
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To: triumphant values

Hey, he-man, go to caveman.com and stop cluttering up nice places with your simplistic grunting.

No one is advocating matriarchy, just freedom. We’re supposed to be on the same side. Try to grasp the big picture before you grunt again.


131 posted on 10/28/2010 5:29:38 PM PDT by NYpeanut (I can't look away)
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To: 50mm

That’s nice. You look like my great-grandson, and you want to flirt? That’s just eeeewwwww.


132 posted on 10/28/2010 5:31:26 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: DelaWhere
Only one who mentioned Conservatism is YOU!

Yes, about 12 times now on this thread, and on posts to which you've responded. And on a Conservative forum no less.

So, I get it, to you, illiberal opinions on women and politics is a worse sin than being a Socialist. Got it. Ok, carry on.

133 posted on 10/28/2010 6:32:49 PM PDT by triumphant values (Never criticize that to your right.)
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To: NYpeanut
No one is advocating matriarchy, just freedom.

Sorry, I thought advocating conservatism was the higher calling here. When freedom is the highest calling, that's libertarianism - two different things.

134 posted on 10/28/2010 6:35:05 PM PDT by triumphant values (Never criticize that to your right.)
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To: 50mm

Why do you have instant access to Bollywood pix?.....;]


135 posted on 10/28/2010 10:02:25 PM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep......the clowns will eat me.)
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