06/09/10
This might just be
the year of the Republican women.
Exhibit A: California,
where former
Hewlett Packard CEO
Carly Fiorina is the front-runner
in the Senate primary
to take on Barbara Boxer.
And in the governor's race,
the favorite for the Republican
nomination is Meg Whitman,
former eBay CEO, who has spent
more than $70 million
of her own money on the race.
And here in Nevada,
women are front and center
in the battle
for the biggest Republican
prize of all,
the chance to take on Senate
Majority Leader, Harry Reid.
The leading candidate is
Sharron Angle,
a gun-toting Tea Party candidate
with hard-line conservative views.
But none of them talk much
about gender.
Instead, they are all running as
something more important
in this anti-incumbent year,
political outsiders.
共和党の女性が強そうだ。
例えばカリフォルニア。
HP社の元CEO
フィオリーナ氏が―
上院予備選挙で
先頭を走っている。
州知事予備選では
ホイットマン氏が有力。
eBay社の元CEOは選挙戦に
私財7,000万ドルを投入した。
ネバダの予備選挙でも
女性たちが最前線で戦い―
勝てばリード上院院内総務に挑む。
強いのはアングル氏。
銃を携行する
保守強硬派の候補者だ。
彼女たちの共通点は―
反現職ムードを追い風に
政界の部外者として戦っている点だ。
