Already, some women who were supposed to have won have been surprise losers. MA AG Martha Coakley (D) lost her SEN bid; ex-NV GOP chair Sue Lowden (R), arguably the most electable general election contender against Senate Maj. Leader Harry Reid, saw her campaign collapse after a series of gaffes (Though NV voters picked another woman, Assemb. Sharron Angle, in her place); and ex-US Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan (R), a highly touted GOP recruit, lost her PA 04 primary bid by a huge margin.Though the GOP looks likely to pick up a big number of seats in the House this Nov., the overwhelming majority will be white males. Only 8 of the 104 candidates on any level of the NRCC's "Young Guns" roster are women, and just 2 of the 23 top-tier candidates are women, as National Journal's Erin McPike wrote a few weeks back.
As Wilson points out, 8 of 26 members of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's "Red to Blue" program for top-tier candidates are women.
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