In the most recent print issue, Sheila Bapat asked the question "Do clean money elections give women a better chance of winning?" (You can read the full article by clicking the link on the left.) One of the women discussed in the article, Gabrielle Giffords, is performing so well in her bid to replace retiring House member Jim Koble that the other party has abandoned advertising for her opponent. However Giffords has never run "clean". The former state senator, argued in the article that "As a Democrat and as a woman, I feel it is important that I build a fundraising base." This seems to be paying off for her. She has transitioned her success fundraising and building support at the state level to Federal races, which are never "clean elections".