Hunter Schwarz, Washington Post – July 6, 2015
It helps that gender transcends politics more easily than race or religion. Women are still a minority in politics, but they make up 50.8 percent of the U.S. population, so the historic nature of Clinton’s candidacy is more personal for more people. Almost everyone has a woman in their life that they are close to, and perhaps they feel more comfortable saying it’s about gender for that reason.