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Hello and welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, November 4th.

This is our special election edition.

This is Hannah Rosen, the editor of Slate's Double X, and I am here today with a completely

different cast of Slate Ladies than my usual. I'm in the DC.C. studio with Emily Yafi, who is Slate's guinea pig and dear prudy. Hello, Emily. I'm filling the Emily Slot. You're the Emily Slot. Emily Bazelon couldn't be here. And filling the Margaret slot, we have Dahlia Lithwick, Slate's legal correspondent. Hello, Dahlia. Hello. Who's been doing double duty on elections and the court today. So is especially knowledgeable as well as for Azult. We're going to talk mostly about the elections and the results and what they mean for women. We're going to start and talk about the Mama Grizzlies and the Sarah Palin scorecard. Then we're going to move to Obama and his press conference and a story that

Slate ran by novelist Curtis Sittenfeld about how she hearts Obama, which was illustrated by a

little picture of Obama in a locket. And then finally, we're just going to talk about the

future for women in politics and what it means and then throw Dahlia a question about violent

video games. So let's begin with the Mama Grizzlies. I'll start by giving a little scorecard.

So my analysis, you know, Sarah Pillen did pretty well, I would say. She did not get her most high

profile women, that is Sharon Engel, who was a lot of money was put behind her to beat Harry Reid.

But she did get some pretty good victories like Nikki Haley for governor of South Carolina,

Mary Phelan in Oklahoma, and Susanna Martinez in New Mexico.

And so I have a little theory about this, but before I talk on and on, Dahlia,

do you have any theory about how you're feeling depressed, not depressed, hopeful about the Sarah Palin victories? What do you have to say about them?

Well, you know, I think we're going to know more. Do we know for sure what happened to Joe Miller in Alaska yet? No, although I have to, you know, Emily wrote this morning about the Lisa Murkowski, Joe Miller, and how that's, I feel that doesn't say anything about Sarah Palin counterintuitively because I feel like Alaskans have just like given up on her. She's not of them. Nobody cares about her there. In fact, people on the radio were saying that this morning. Like their depth of emotion and also depth of, you know, indifference slash hatred, whatever does not reflect how she's doing in the rest of the country because their feelings about her are so particular. Oh, that's interesting. But you're disagreeing. But she has that reality series, Maya Lassar or something coming out. Exactly. They're throwing snowballs at her snowmobile. Well, Emily made a funny point that she should have a showdown with Lisa Murkowski because, in fact, their rivalry goes far and deep and they really hate each other.

This is Emily Bazel. Give her credit where her credits do. Well, and interesting, I thought

one of the interesting things about that post, and I guess we should say that we're posting

about women in the elections on Slade.

And Emily, I think, made the nice point that this is the kind of rivalry that you almost never hear about two women politicians.

I mean, this looks like the kind of longstanding, you know, snarling, hissing, you know, something that men feel about each other.

I thought that was sort of a nice insight that

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