North Carolina's voters are comfortable voting for female candidates:
Eleven women were on the ballot last week running in primaries for statewide elective office. Seven of them won their races by beating male opponents. An eighth, Winston-Salem's Mary Fant Donnan, was the top vote-getter in the Democratic primary for commissioner of labor, and may face a runoff ... In November, the U.S. Senate race in North Carolina will pit two female candidates against each other: the Republican incumbent, Elizabeth Dole, and her Democratic challenger, Kay Hagan.
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