Robert Reich -- Hillary "cannot run on being the first woman to be president..."

[SheilaT]

54. While it's true that she doesn't have

First Woman President as an actual plank in her platform, many of her followers, including those here on DU, seem to think it's a very important part of her campaign, if not the most important part.

There's an assumption that there's a huge yearning for a woman President, and that if she's nominated, millions upon millions of women who would otherwise vote for the Republican candidate will miraculously cross over and vote for the woman, for Hillary. You'd think that the way Wendy Davis and Alison Lundergan Grimes both went down in flames would have cleared that up. In both cases there was a strong assumption that vast numbers of women who normally vote R would instead vote for the woman with the D after her name. For one thing, there are a lot of people out there, many of them women, who do not believe women belong in political life at all, let alone in the top job.

Hillary Clinton is not going to coast into the Presidency, even if she gets the nomination. At this point, all of the potential Republican nominees are seen here on DU as complete jokes, but we often forget that plenty of Republicans are as single-minded about their party as we are about ours.