The XX Factor : tough hillary, Hillary Clinton

In the Polls, Yes She Can

Emily Bazelon — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:49:00 GMT

I'll be very curious to see if this dust-up affects Hillary's poll numbers—and my hunch is that it won't. It's pretty minor, so perhaps not much of a test, but my bet is that she'll maintain her huge edge among women voters. In the personal realm, we're...(read more)

Hillary Can't Win

Dahlia Lithwick — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:39:00 GMT

Ruth Marcus has a smart piece in today’s Washington Post about Hillary’s decision to play the gender card. I think she is spot-on. Hillary is so far above this sort of gender-grousing, it actually diminishes her to retreat to it. Barack Obama called her...(read more)

Re: Man, Woman, Candidate

Meghan O'Rourke — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:38:00 GMT

In response to your perceptive comments , Emily: I agree that Hillary can seem to lack empathy, and that's what might make her seem a "pretender" to many Americans. But what the paper I cited starts to get at--and what I'm really wondering about--are...(read more)

Man, Woman, Candidate

Emily Bazelon — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:32:00 GMT

In the NYT this morning, Gail Collins' column is all about Hillary's toughness. Collins reams Clinton for the substantive answers she gave during Tuesday's debates, but gives her style points for holding her own while "being yelled at by six men." "They...(read more)

Hillary Clinton: Tough, Stoic, or Scary?

Meghan O'Rourke — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:47:00 GMT

If we need any reminder that it's not easy to be the first popular female candidate for the American presidency, it arrived Monday in the form of an announcement by the AP that Hillary Clinton was leading in yet another poll. This one? The candidate likely...(read more)