I humbly disagee with point 1.

Hillary has blazed a trail, yes.  Women are more ahead, yes.  

But this race has been very unfortunate.  It made a lot of issues to come to the fore.  Hillary has convinced me that she is a terrific leader.  I don't see any other woman with her qualifications in the horizon.  

I am afraid MSM will get behind a mediocere female candidate the next time, try to hype her, and then tell us, "see, women can't govern."   They would either let that woman self-implode, or give her the Hillary treatment after she has been elected.

I am very cynical and pessimistic.  

Hillary is NOT a woman candidate.  She is THE MOST QUALIFIED candidate, period.  She is an amazingly resilient, smart, qualified candidate.  She is one of the best candidates of either party in at least 30 years.  And the media is dooming her.  She has a billion dollar megaphone working against her day in and out.  As someone appropriately put in another diary today, it's like officials trying to push Kathrine Switzer out of the marathan.  A very apt analogy.