@TomTomBinks,
Quote:Is it possible that Hillary lost because she is a woman?
I don't think that came into the picture at all. In fact, she was probably given the benefit of the doubt on a lot of issues, rather than being discriminated against on gender.
There was actually a lot of support for the "first woman president" thing here in Australia, where we recently saw our first female Prime Minister in Julia Gillard.
Harking back to HRC's first sound-byte, or slogan "It's Time" meaning time for a woman in the white house, I think that was actually hugely lame, and pathetically condescending to women in general.