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Mini-super-Tuesday turned out to be Ladies' Day: Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Blanche Lincoln, Nikki Haley, Sharron Angle.... The NYT paints Senator Lincoln's victory over a far-left opponent as proof that incumbents can win "even in a toxic environment," but really, doesn't she only prove that it pays to be sensible, even when your party has a filibuster-proof majority in the senate?

But what intrigues me most about the California primary was the proposition calling for non-party primaries. It passed. If California is still America's trendsetters--think freeways, swimming pools, Taco stands, calling the boss by her first name--2010 may be the beginning of the end for Democrats and Republicans both: it takes a centrist to win a contest like that. And if June 8 is any indication, all the centrists will be women. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford