I missed Holly Yeager's
January 11 column on the thin "bench" of potential female presidential candidates behind Hillary Clinton, but it's still all true two weeks later and worth reading. I found it, meanwhile, while reading this
excellent post by Mark Schmitt (aka Holly Yeager's husband) taking note of the incredible run of bad luck that struck down a whole string of promising 1970s-vintage New York political women.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/01/tag-team/48093/