Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

She became known to listeners for her good-natured acceptance of ribbing from other panelists and callers to the program. Election 2004: How Bush Won and What You Can Expect in the Future. New York: Thomas Dunne Books.

She is currently a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine. Eleanor Clift (born July 7 1940) is a political reporter television pundit and author. She is a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show The McLaughlin Group which Eleanor Clift has compared to "a televised food fight".