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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101019:00:44:00

Out there. the fact that we re having this conversation is fantastic in the first place. 100 years ago, women could not vote in the united states of america. tonight we re talking about is it mean girls, mean boys, everyone is mean in politics, that s part of the problem. i m not sure we should be analyzing progress by gender representation. who cares what chromosomes you have. i care about what s between your ears. when you re talking about two centuries plus of american history in which you ve never had a woman leader and until recently had never had an african-american president, it s something to care about. it s easy to not care about equal representation when your particular demographic has been well represented. it s what the supreme court said about affirmative action. 25 years from now, let s hope we don t need it, maybe they ll get rid of it. you should talk about it and pay attention. we re going to ask a question. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101019:08:43:00

Of playing in the same field as men, whether it s negative campaigning or not, i think that says a lot for where women are right now. having said that, i was talking to an aide to senator harry reid running against a female candidate. right before they had their debate last week, one of the things the campaign was thinking about, was the fact that he was on the stage with a woman and he just had to calibrate it differently because of that. that is something that is still out there. the fact that we re having this conversation is fantastic in the first place. 100 years ago, women could not vote in the united states of america. tonight we re talking about is it mean girls, mean boys, everyone is mean in politics, that s part of the problem. i m not sure we should be analyzing progress by gender representation. who cares what chromosomes you have. i care about what s between your ears. when you re talking about two centuries plus of american history in which you ve never had a woman ....

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