In this Friday Dec. 7, 2012, photo, the five women holding New Hampshire’s top political offices, from left, Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, D-N.H., Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., and U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., discuss what their lives are like as female politicians at the Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. All three northern New England states do better than the national average in electing women to their state Legislatures. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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