But you also have to have people who are going to be listened to. Across the room, Ronald Reagan smiles out from one picture frame, and Reagan Dunn, the younger of her two sons, smiles out from another. Abortion, she says, should be legal but not federally funded. But late last week, her staffers maintained that Dunn was leading Largent in the race and that Wednesday's vote might not be decisive. By the year 2000, women will be running over 50 percent of the world's businesses. . . .
Women care about issues in the marketplace.
Dunn's own issues at this very moment are strictly practical. She needs to convince 112 fellow Republicans that they need her. She needs to convince them that she's enough of a change without being a risk. Dunn is a fiscal conservative with a rating of 96 out of a possible 100 with the American Conservative Union for the past year, and a lifetime record of 91. Yet Dunn has developed a reputation as a moderate on social issues, in part by promoting her status as a divorced woman who raised her sons on her own.