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ifeminists November 3, 2004 Carey Roberts	All Hail to the Panderer-in-Chief Pandering, of course, is the stock-in-trade of any political campaign. Still, it was impressive to watch the two presidential candidates pulling out all the stops to woo the female vote.
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