Conservative Women - the National

Conservative Women - the National Review's Stephen Moore's list of winners and losers from last week's elections includes this bit:

Winners: GOP Women — You won't hear this from the press, but it was the year of the conservative woman, as GOP adds more skirts to Congress than do the Democrats, including Marilyn Musgrave of Colorado, Katherine Harris in Florida, Marsha Blackburn in Tennessee, and Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina.
Loser: EMILY's List — Bad hair night for the feminists as virtually all their candidates went up in flames.

And in Minnesota, we have Pat Anderson Awada as State Auditor, perfectly positioned to:

a) kick the same no-quarter, confrontational butt she kicked while mayor of Eagan, and

b) position herself for bigger and better things.

Before the election, I predicted she would be our first woman governor. It's still possible, but will she want to wait four (or hopefully eight) years to do it? Especially when there are a raft of possibilities open to her: Mark Dayton's senate seat is up for election in '06, and Dayton has been the invisible man lately - and if the DFL's current fortunes obtain for two more years, it could be ripe for the picking, especially by an mover and shaker like Awada.

Whatever - I'm just going to broaden my prediction; Minnesota's first female senator and governor will be from the GOP. The names are up in the air (duh), and their gender is not their cachet - this is a Republican thing. But that's how it'll go down.

Posted by Mitch at November 12, 2002 01:41 PM