Kerry Howley notes an unprecedented possible outcome for New Hampshire today:
New Hampshire already has two female senators, Kelly Ayotte (R) and Jeanne Shaheen (D). If Democrats Carol Shea-Porter and Ann McLane Kuster win the state’s only two congressional seats, New Hampshire will be a matriarchal dystopia in which men are farmed out for their sexual services and immediately discarded. Kuster is winning handily, and Shea-Porter is tied, which means it is within the realm of the possible that we will soon see the country's first all-female delegation. And should you be heretofore unconvinced that men are ending in New Hampshire, I introduce you to the gubernatorial race.
Indeed, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Maggie Hassan is currently leading in most polls. And if it is a clean sweep for New Hampshire's women, the state will be better for it, at least according to Lauren Sandler:
[P]olitical scientists have proved women’s extraordinary efficacy in federal and state legislatures. Across the board, findings show that the second sex rates first when it comes to effective governance. Women in office secure almost 10 percent more federal funding than their male colleagues and introduce about twice as many bills.
Sandler says the lack of women in government isn't because they can't elected, but because women are "twice as likely as men to say they [aren't] qualified to run and half as likely to be recruited by a party leader":
When you look at the rest of the world, this crisis of confidence is madness. Five of Latin America’s current heads are women. For two decades, Argentina has maintained a quota of 30 percent female representation. Granted, Latin America is hardly a hotbed of gyno-liberalism; most of these female leaders are anti-abortion, line-toting Catholics. So let’s consider Europe, where women’s organizations met in Strasbourg this week to organize toward 50-50 parity in the next election, as the continent’s one-third representation is considered an outrage. It’s a poignant irony that when the United States helps fledgling governments outline their democracies and develop their constitutions, we emphasize the importance of full female inclusion in government; there’s a reason that, despite a close adherence to Islamic sharia, Iraq ranks about 40 slots before us on the U.N. list.
Previous coverage of the potential wave of female Senators here.
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