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Right-Wing Women Win Big in Primary Voting

Have they kicked through the glass ceiling?

Calvin Trillin

June 17, 2010

These women won a lot of races, Which might mean we’ve kicked off the traces And now don’t have a ceiling made of glass. Still, we’re not shouting, "You go girls!" The politics beneath those curls Tempt us instead to mutter just, "Alas."

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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