WASHINGTON - It has been more than six months since Anita Hillwent public with sexual harassment charges against Clarence Thomas,but her testimony continues to shake up U.S. politics and boost womencandidates for public office.
The latest beneficiary of the upheaval driven by Hill's Senatetestimony was Lynn Yeakel, a political novice who came from obscurityto defeat two male Democratic opponents in Tuesday's Senate primaryin Pennsylvania.
She faces Republican incumbent Arlen Specter in November.
Last month, it was Carol Moseley Braun who defeated incumbentSen. Alan J. Dixon in Illinois' Democratic primary.
Both Yeakel and Braun openly appealed to …
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