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A woman won

Submitted by Anon Y Mous (not verified) on 9 January 2008 - 2:04pm.

The press is underplaying the historic significance of last night. For the first time in American history a woman won a presidential election contest. It wasn't long ago that woman candidates for president were rare and not taken seriously. The idea of a woman being on the ballot of a presidential race with five guys, and beating all the guys, would have been unheard of twenty years ago. Or actually unheard of until yesterday. Hillary Clinton made american history. She proved a woman can win.

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