Byline: MARIANNE MEANS
WASHINGTON -- When Bob Dole called the other day for a televised campaign debate between his wife, Elizabeth, and First Lady Hillary Clinton, he ventured into uncharted gender territory fraught with peril for the two career women as well as their husbands.
Is this idea for real or just a cute stunt?
The soon-to-be GOP presidential nominee threw his wife to the debate wolf because he confronts polls that show female voters prefer Clinton to himself by a decisive 2-to-1 margin.
Hiding behind his wife will not reverse that trend, which is based mostly on GOP policy positions that many women consider hostile to their …
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