Legislative makeup settled by candidates, not genders

 
The Oklahoman Editorial
Published: January 8, 2009

H ILLARY Clinton could have become the first female president. Sarah Palin might have been the first female vice president. That neither woman made the cut wasn’t a rejection of women in politics per se. It was a choice between competing candidates.

Some proponents of increasing the number of women in politics seem to favor a quota system to close the gender gap in politics, yet we suspect that many of those u...


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