Women in Tuesday's Primary Elections

Last Tuesday’s primary elections across many states in the country showed, what I would call, interesting results.
We should say that it was a great night for women.
In Nevada Sharron Angle won the primary for the Republican Party. Let’s look closely at this candidate that will challenge the majority leader next November. She is the Tea Party candidate. She supports the elimination of the Department of Education and the elimination of Social Security. This last program is arguably the best program that the United States has, covering many senior citizens.
She defeated the chicken candidate, the woman who believed in bartering for health care with chickens.
In California two women were elected to the Republican Party, one to run for governor and the other to run for the senate.
Meg Whitman, former CEO of Ebay, who spent at an average of almost $50 per vote in the primary of her own money will be a formidable candidate against Mr. Brown, as she is worth almost 1 billion dollars.
Carly Fiorina on the other hand, who won the primary last Tuesday for the Senate seat, and who will run against incumbent Barbara Boxer, is a different story. She was arguably the worst CEO HP ever had, to the point that she was fired by their board. She outsourced to Asia over 5000 jobs. She merged HP and Compaq in what was questionably the worst decision during a period when other companies were shrinking in labor force. That was the reason why the board fired her. She is running as a very conservative in a fairly blue state, she is pro-life in a state that is very pro-choice. She will still be a tough candidate because of the mid-term election, and primarily because of a climate of uncertainty, high unemployment and apathy in the electorate.
In South Carolina Nikki Haley almost won the gubernatorial candidacy as she finished with 49%. There will be a runoff in South Carolina because no candidate reached the 50% threshold, and Nikki Haley will possibly win that primary, and therefore, will likely be the next governor, as South Carolina is a very conservative state.
And I left Blanche Lincoln for last. I did so purposely. She won easily in the runoff even though she had the unions, the White House and many progressives against her because she is considered a “corporate democrat”, and because she was one of the few democrats who voted against the public option. I was one of the ones who wanted her out because of that vote. She will have her work cut out for herself in a state that Obama lost heavily in 2008, and that in this midterm election is full of unhappy people voting against incumbents, so it is very possible that she will not be reelected to the Senate for Arkansas. Nevertheless she will have the party behind her including figures such as Bill Clinton, just like she did during the runoff election, and anything can happen between now and November.