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[quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't argue that a woman needs to aim higher or be "better" to win the presidency. Both red and blue states all across America have now elected female governors and senators of both parties. Collectively that tells me the country is very capable of voting for a woman for the presidency. And it sort of did given that HRC won the popular vote.

Hillary was just a lousy candidate. She failed to resonate with working class voters (ironically given that in 2008 it was working class white voters who helped her a lot in the primaries against Obama). But her arrogance over the emails and the Clinton Foundation fundraising (which both happened since 2008) badly hurt her. As did her failure to campaign sufficiently in the upper midwestern states (she only won Minnesota by 40,000 votes and this is the home of Amy Klobuchar!). The perception that the Democratic party was stiffing everyone else to clear the way for her also badly hurt her image.

Any male candidate who behaved as she did would have been clobbered. And likely much more worse because Hillary did retain sufficient support from a segment of women who were dedicated to getting the first woman to the WH regardless of who she was, and fear/hatred of Donald Trump. Had there been a more moderate or reasonable Republican candidate like Kasich of Ohio, it would have never been this close for Hillary, let alone winning the popular vote outright. [/quote]

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