Roger Simon of The Politico does a multi-part series on why Hillary lost--and finds, for example, that Hillary's coterie of female advisers ("Hillaryland") didn't always work to her advantage:
"...Hillary wanted to stay away from hiring the Friends of Bill (until the campaign got in trouble and then she had reached out to a few of them). “She had an inexperienced staff, but the concern was that she had to run as her own person and not as Bill Clinton’s third term,” an aide who worked for both Hillary and Bill said. “She felt his operation and culture didn’t fit her. As first lady and in her Senate office, she had a very female-centric, matriarchal environment. He is more freewheeling and less structured.” To put it mildly. Solis Doyle had coined the term “Hillaryland” to describe Hillary’s female inner circle. The term caught on, and many stories were done about it. But some were unimpressed, feeling that the Hillaryland talent pool was shallow for a major presidential campaign. An influential member of Congress, who was being wooed furiously by both Clinton and Obama, was invited to meet with the people of Hillaryland. He declined. “That’s OK,” he said. “I’ve already seen ‘The Vagina Monologues.’”'
