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Some historical background
When Hillary ran for the Senate in 2000, one of the defining moments of the race occurred when Rick Lazio was supposedly too aggressive in attacking Hillary in a debate. In the post-mortem it was widely suggested that Lazio had been hurt by his "ungentlemanly" conduct towards Hillary in the debate. Personally I think Lazio lost because he was so obviously a sacrificial lamb thrown into the race by Republicans when it became clear that Hillary was going to win anyway. But it hardly matters what the truth is, if the Clinton team thinks that gender expectations can be used in spinning their debate performance and deflecting criticism...