The Quote of the Day from Bloomberg News’ Al Hunt:
So, knowing this will anger some woman readers, here goes: Hillary Clinton didn’t lose the Democratic presidential nomination because she is a woman, and gender no longer is a big deal in American elections.
There are two basic reasons the most formidable front-runner in contemporary presidential politics failed: Barack Obama is a sensational candidate who assembled a campaign team, which out- thought and out-strategized Clinton at every turn; and Hillary Clinton, in the most important venture of her life, picked the wrong people and adopted the wrong strategy.
Unwilling to face this painful reality, some Clintonistas persist in the whiny complaint that it was all about sexism.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.