The Clinton Campaign and Sexism

According to an article in The Washington Post, Senator Clinton discussed the the sexist treatment she received in the campaign:

"It's been deeply offensive to millions of women," Clinton said. "I believe this campaign has been a groundbreaker in a lot of ways. But it certainly has been challenging given some of the attitudes in the press, and I regret that, because I think it's been really not worthy of the seriousness of the campaign and the historical nature of the two candidacies we have here."

Later, when asked if she thinks this campaign has been racist, she says she does not. And she circles back to the sexism. "The manifestation of some of the sexism that has gone on in this campaign is somehow more respectable, or at least more accepted, and . . . there should be equal rejection of the sexism and the racism when it raises its ugly head," she said. "It does seem as though the press at least is not as bothered by the incredible vitriol that has been engendered by the comments by people who are nothing but misogynists."

The end of the article discusses how Clinton improved on her campaigning skills as she became more comfortable and confident about her message. The article states, "early in her campaign, she was self-conscious about becoming the women's candidate, intent instead on suiting up as commander in chief."

I am not sure if this means that she did better when she embraced being the women's candidate or when she moved beyond the CIC image. Her campaign would have been much different had she reconciled her Iraq vote before the campaign rather then during. Had she done this, the discussion of sexism may not have mattered.