Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

She became known to listeners for her good-natured acceptance of ribbing from other panelists and callers to the program. Election 2004: How Bush Won and What You Can Expect in the Future. New York: Thomas Dunne Books.

She is currently a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine. Eleanor Clift (born July 7 1940) is a political reporter television pundit and author. She is a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show The McLaughlin Group which Eleanor Clift has compared to "a televised food fight".