Duke University is one of 20 universities holding an “Elect Her — Campus Women Win” event, the goal of which is to help women get elected.
Maybe they don’t read the papers, or maybe this is just a problem on the left. Because on the right, the field of powerful elected women is huge and influential.
Need I mention Sarah Palin? Or Michele Bachmann? Or Jan Brewer? Or Kristi Noem? Or Susana Martinez? The problem is, you see, these women are all associated with Tea Party activism, and that just doesn’t count with the left.
So while lefty women gather at Duke for “training,” conservative women are out there winning elections. I’ll take that any day.
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31
2011 At 1:30 pm, Annette Said:
Even though I am a “lefty” I give kudos to all women in office. I just happen to believe there aren’t nearly enough. So in this case I give props to Duke, a conservative and well-known right leaning institutuion (one of the excuses uber liberal UNC uses to hate Duke) for making the effort to ensure that though we have women in office–we make sure the trend continues.
31
2011 At 2:08 pm, Jon Ham Said:
Duke “conservative and right-leaning”? I thought lefties were reality based. This isn’t 1931 and there is no longer a James B. Duke running the show in Gothic Wonderland.