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Less JWoww, More Gillibrand

Manus and Sabelhaus aren’t the only ones talking politics these days. During election season, women’s issues were headline news. Some highlights from the 2012 presidential campaign: Women were excluded from a congressional hearing on birth control. A New York Republican campaign spokesman wrote on his Facebook page, “Let’s hurl some acid at those female democratic senators.” Rush Limbaugh called a Georgetown student a “prostitute” and a “slut” for wanting access to contraception. Young women deemed “SlutWalks” a nifty way to protest sexual harassment on the nation’s campuses. A Senate nominee from Indiana said “God intended” pregnancies resulting from rape. A Senate nominee from Missouri justified his categorically ...