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...victory in the primary over a Democratic incumbent who had supported Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, then won in the general election over an ex-Reagan official. Braun will be the first black woman Senator. California, with two seats open, chose establishment Democrat Dianne Feinstein and liberal firebrand Barbara Boxer. Once mocked as "a mom in tennis shoes," Washington state senator Patty Murray becomes a U.S. Senator after a campaign that turned insult to advantage. But Lynn Yeakel lost to Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter in a fierce battle...
...feminist fund raisers, most women still occupy an economic class where a $100- a-plate luncheon counts as a new blazer or a dental visit forgone. In Kansas, Democratic challenger Gloria O'Dell raised barely $100,000 compared with incumbent Bob Dole's $2 million. California's Barbara Boxer and Pennsylvania's Lynn Yeakel found themselves too broke to counter their opponents' attack ads until late in the campaign...
...dislodge. Illinois' Carol Moseley Braun got hit with Medicaid-fraud charges for failing to report a windfall that might have helped pay her mother's nursing-home bill. Yeakel was revealed to have paid $17,000 in back taxes on the eve of announcing her candidacy. Congresswoman Barbara Boxer had 143 bounced checks to account for. In the nastiest race of all, two New York feminists, Geraldine Ferraro and Elizabeth Holtzman, went down biting and clawing -- to make way for a liberal man. And not all the new female candidates were even feminists: G.O.P. challengers Charlene Haar (South Dakota...
Canadians wouldn't play baseball on Boxer Day, would they? (Of course, Boxer Day is in December, but that's besides the point...
...female candidates for the U.S. Senate, 6 triumphed yesterday evening. The name of the winner in each race appears in italics. ARIZONA Claire Sargent (D) 33% John McCain (R) inc. 55% CALIFORNIA Barbara Boxer (D) 47% Bruce Herschensohn (R) 43% CALIFORNIA Dianne Feinstein (D) 54% John Seymour (R) 30% ILLINOIS Carol Moseley Braun (D) 55% Richard Williamson 45% IOWA Jean Lloyd-Jones (D) 28% Charles E. Grassley (R) inc. 72% KANSAS Gloria O'Dell (D) 32% Robert Dole (R) inc. 64% MARYLAND Barbara Mikulski (D) inc. 71% Alan Keyes (R) 29% MISSOURI Geri Rothman-Serot (D) 46% Kit Bond...