via salon.com
Could it be that the Democrats asked Ms. Harman to run again so that Ms. Winograd could be denied the seat. Making it more readily winnable for the more politically conformist and malleable Ms. Hahn? Carefully planned political positioning could be a better explanatory frame than this political back-biting mythologizing. It certainly plays to an audience enamored of the notion of ‘Bitchdom’ a perennial misogynist trope.