Hillary Clinton’s exit from the Democratic presidential primary this weekend prompted an interesting opinion piece published in the New York Times from
In the brief letter, the Republican representative of the First Congressional District stated that the Democratic nominating system favors the most liberal candidate — Barack Obama in this instance — but “there is a second reason Hillary Clinton lost that some are reluctant to openly acknowledge: a latent and lamentable sexism. She lost because the superdelegates — the Democratic establishment — went against her.”
“She became a caricature: too smart, too strong, too assertive, too rational, too competent,”
“You can be so proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the president of the