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	<title><![CDATA[Sarah Palin's resignation to reduce women governors to six]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-richie/sarah-palins-resignation_b_225635.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Sarah Palin's<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/us/politics/04palin.html"> surprise announcement </a>today that she will step down this month as Alaska's governor has stirred a firestorm of conjecture about her motives and political prospects.</p>

<p>There is one particularly concrete consequence, however: she will be the third woman governor to leave office since the November elections in the wake of President Obama tapping two women governors for his cabinet (Kansas' Kathleen Sebelius and Arizona's Janet Napolitano). Women make up a majority of today's electorate, but come August, there...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-07-03T22:50:00-04:00</date_published>
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