{"id":50119,"date":"2016-08-01T11:47:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T15:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=50119"},"modified":"2016-08-01T11:54:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T15:54:46","slug":"haters-whine-all-you-want-hillarys-nomination-is-unprecedented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2016\/08\/haters-whine-all-you-want-hillarys-nomination-is-unprecedented\/","title":{"rendered":"Haters, Whine All You Want. Hillary’s Nomination Is Unprecedented."},"content":{"rendered":"
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I just wanted to write a quick note to Hillary supporters with some info for when you hear haters complaining that Hillary is not the first woman to run for president. That is true, however:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 The Clinton campaign is not making that claim. Maybe some in the media have.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Hillary is the first woman to win the nomination of the Democratic or Republican party.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Lots of women have run for president. Very few have had ballot access in all 50 states, and none have won a fifty state national election to win the nomination – except Hillary.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Most of the haters will bring up Victoria Woodhull. Interestingly, this is a terrible example.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Woodhull had ballot access in NO states.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Frederick Douglass was Woodhull’s vice-presidential nominee and Douglass neither accepted or acknowledged the nomination.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Lots of women have run for president, and they have paved the way for this historic election. But Hillary Clinton is the first candidate with a legitimate shot to win – the FIRST female front runner in the history of the country.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Hillary Clinton has won exponentially more votes than EVERY woman candidate in history COMBINED<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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So yes, Hillary Clinton’s candidacy is both historic and unprecedented, whatever the misogynists and haters will try to tell you.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I just wanted to write a quick note to Hillary supporters with some info for when you hear haters complaining that Hillary is not the first woman to run for president. That is true, however: \u00a0 \u2022 The Clinton campaign is not making that claim. Maybe some in the media have. \u2022 Hillary is the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1774,1628,22],"tags":[1622,1888,53,2045,453],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50121,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50119\/revisions\/50121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}