I'd be amazed were this not happening all over the nation.

Here's the thing, folks:  Jeralyn has told people she'll support the eventual nominee, but she's also repeatedly said she thinks this will go to the Convention.

I think it's sad that, at every point in American history when the choice comes down to an African-American man or a woman, women have to take a back seat.  Women got the right to vote over 80 years after black men did.  Will it be another 80 years before a woman has another shot at the top spot?

BTD-- what is particularly sad is that while Obama will likely be the nominee no one who supports him seems to recognize that if he lost this primary season the opportunity for him or someone like him-- a black man-- to run would still be there.  Colin Powell, though a Republican, was once touted as a possible first African-American president-- one who, like Obama, may have had a real shot.  (I say 'may have' because his standing in the GOP probably means that won't happen.)  

With Clinton, that's probably not the case.  Women who are 'impervious' to the sexism of American society, women strong enough and smart enough don't get that far that often.  The NY Times ran an article to this effect only a few weeks ago.  There really is no one to step up into Clinton's place as a viable female candidate in four, eight or 20 years.

So you see, it's much bigger than just Clinton losing. It is, in some sense, giving up on a woman having a legitimate shot at being the Commander in Chief for, probably, a generation or more.  Will Clinton live to see the day that a woman is president?  I doubt it.

At base, Obama is a man and men have always been at the top.  Even in Congress, the precentage of women is unrepresentative of the proportion of women in the US.  Even though more women graduate from college than men, there are fewer women as CEOs and executives than men.  This is not just a matter of women making different choices, this is a matter of women facing barriers that their male colleagues-- black, Asian, whatever-- do not have.  There is sexism at work here, just as there was in the primary campaign, allowed by the media and stoked by Obama's campaign and surrogates.

(And!  My state party just had as the speaker at the state's yearly fundraiser one Claire McCaskill, shill for Obama - and nobody to represent Hillary, despite her 14-point win here in the primary.

Do you really see any other woman willing to run the gauntlet of misogyny in the near future?

My next reason kind of goes along with the first which is that he has been very vocal about supporting habeus corpus and closing Guantanamo bay for a long time.  His experience teaching constitutional law makes me think he would be much more inclined to strictly uphold our rights under the law.