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I wouldn't say people are pushing too hard for it, or that people are saying look she's a women vote for her or you're sexist. At least, I don't think that was really the pitch before the election. 'Its her turn' was a blunder but at least the pitch I got from the campaign was largely 'Do you want Trump answering the warroom in the middle of the night or seasoned diplomat Hillary' with a side of 'Obama's recovery was great, just look at the stocks'. I do agree about the two primary winners we have had though, they were not it. To avoid repeating myself too much here since I went into it in another comment, I think Hillary's outsized party influence also fucked us by not giving us as full a complement of primary challengers as we should have had, and odds are one or more of them would be a woman who doesn't have to dig herself out of decades of Washington insider dislike
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