In contrast to this year's primary elections, the so-called "Year of the Woman" in 1992 "was a one-sided wave" in that most of the women who were newly elected to the Senate were "liberal, pro-choice Democrats," columnist Doyle McManus writes in the Los Angeles Times. "In those days, conservatism and feminism didn't mix, at least not easily," he states, adding that now the "GOP is consciously trying to turn gender into a selling point...
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