Research Paper on:
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Her Political Baggage

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in the media or elsewhere, probably being buried behind the next to last page before the obituaries in most papers. But, then again, Hillary Clinton is no ordinary politician. Her  election victory hailed her as the first First Lady ever to be elected to the United States Senate and the first woman elected statewide in New York(Clinton, 2002). However, as  much as the First Lady status helped her campaign, it can be said to have hurt her as well. Are there political consequences for the former First Lady as a  professional politicians career settles in? Women in politics over the last decade have traditionally campaigned on many issues, though most have focused incredibly on domestic issues. This, of course, angers  those who have worked so diligently to show that there is no difference in the gender of a politician. However, it can also be argued that the politician campaigns on  those issues that are the closest to their own hearts and ideas. Women, therefore, would seem to have the perspective that domestic matters are important enough to stage a whole  campaign on them. Apparently, this is a successful ploy for many. However, it should also be stated that as a political ploy many of the female campaigners knew that  the media could be used to their advantage in these areas, so it is difficult to summarily dismiss the female campaigns to necessarily domestic issues to a stereotypical reason. More  than likely it was because when campaigning against a male opponent, the woman looked more knowledgeable on domestic issues than did the male counterpart and fed into that assumption of  motherly natures of women. Did, then, female political candidates merely perpetuate the stereotype in order to be elected? One cannot say that this was necessarily so of Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately,