Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.