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Hillary Clinton so far has shunned a Vogue photo shoot “for fear of looking too feminine,” according to the editor. But Gov. Kathleen Sebelius strikes quite a pose in the February issue, glowing in a $5,450 Oscar de la Renta taffeta gown in the Kansas Senate chamber and also in a snapshot from a White House state dinner last year (seated next to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger). The accompanying profile glows, too, lauding the Democrat’s ability to win over a Republican state and laying on the adjectives — “sleek,” “elegant, circumspect (a trait Kansans approve), and strikingly fit.” Getting Republicans to vote for a Democrat, she suggests, “has to do with leadership and vision and values identification. You don’t get up and say, ‘I’m a Democrat, and I support X, Y, and Z.’ You say, ‘I’m an American.’” After two bad defeats at her hands, Kansas Republicans might have to agree with the piece’s best line: Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer says “she’s as tough as a two-dollar steak.”