In her presidential campaign kick-off speech and in a subsequent interview with Iowa media, Hillary Clinton leaned pretty hard into the notion that electing her president would represent a major historical breakthrough. …
But it probably isn’t an accident that she noted that she’d be the first female president as a direct response to the fact that other candidates running for the White House are younger than she is. …
Celinda Lake, a pollster who is widely respected among Democrats, tells me that focus groups she has conducted show that this has the potential to be an effective rebuttal — particularly among the voter groups it appears intended for. CONT.
Greg Sargent, Washington Post