What Might Have Been: Hillary Concedes as Herself

[NicholeW.]

By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer
Sat Jun 7, 5:41 PM ET
Analysis

WASHINGTON - This one's for the girls.

That was Hillary Rodham Clinton's message Saturday as she ended her presidential bid — a final, full-throated acknowledgment of what her pioneering quest had meant to women.

It was a moving, genuine and unexpected moment for Clinton, who spent most of her campaign playing down her gender as a way to reassure voters who might have trouble imagining a female commander in chief.

[tekla]

She ran a poor campaign.  Depended too much on bigness and never recovered from the early days when her people never saw Obama coming.  And her hubby didn't help.