Hmmm... Darkly, Hillary (it's 2 Ls for women) won some important early rounds- they all crow when they do that. She's learned to fight hard in the boy's yard, & is sometimes more in macha mode because of it. C'mon, this brilliant woman has had to deal w/ endless crap about her cookie recipes & her hair-do! And who her indiscrete horny husband was screwing. Wile Obama can, to some extent, talk about racism as a factor when hit w/ it, if Hillary does the same regarding sexism, she risks being labled a man-hater. It's crazy. Damed if she do & damed if she don't.

She's done something no U.S. woman has ever done before- run a serious, well-funded, possibly winning campaign for president. Isn't Obama's ass well-clothed, too? Give her a fuckin' break!
Most women who make it to the top in traditionally male professions learn to be Iron Maidens to some extent, & will continue to do so... till we balance things out & re-write the paradigm. Even if she hasn't been yr candidate, rejoice for the barrier she broke.

Thank God/dess for her macha. Because people who are in the arena of doing seriously world-shaking things, breaking molds, taking great risks, HAVE to have some arrogance beyond confidence. To be sure, it's a double-edged sword. Megalomania & narrowing of vision, getting cutthroat are big pitfalls. But w/o the people can can call on that kind of ego in service to a cause, ideals, we'd be in big trouble.
A good leader has to listen, & compromise. But sometimes it can be a bitch to get there, when the contest is so poorly designed.

I'm curious if you could pick out things she did that were different from what all or most of the men who have run campaigns in the last 10 years have done.

miele, i dont see that as something that did without regard to feelings, i see that as you weighing them heavily and doing what was right.

Well...
I don't have an answer, I suppose that's why I'm asking. The thought came to me from a previous thread about confident men and if women are intimidated by them. Chicks dig confident men, like I dig confident women. So I took the thought to the next level, women don't like overconfident men so I what is a mans reaction to an overconfident women. Then I found out that I couldn't think of a single piece of behavior that a women could exhibit that I could categorize as overconfident. this brought the current question to mind, what is an overconfident woman like? She must exist, right? Then what is she like?
I'm more happy to have the dialog started than actually receiving and answer and to have helped start it.
thanks for asking!