Word: bonkers
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...than not this year, women have been outsiders. And outsiders have fared well. In Washington State, 41-year-old Patty Murray, whose previous political experience amounts to one term in the state senate, cast herself as "just a mom in tennis shoes" and beat former seven-term Congressman Don Bonker for the opportunity to run against another Beltway insider, five-term Republican Congressman Rod Chandler, for the Senate seat vacated by retiring Democrat Brock Adams. Murray becomes the 11th woman this year to make it onto a major party ticket for the Senate -- another record...