It's a race for redemption. I've written a lot about women in their 50s who are still healthy and well-educated who tend to break out and go at a gallop just at the time men are going back to a trot or slowing down temporarily. Even if Hillary Clinton loses the New York race, she could still have another 20 years of politically active life ahead of her. One problem she must overcome, however, is her inability to admit her shortcomings. It makes her seem unapproachable to voters who have difficulty connecting with her.
Perfectionism is a terrific problem for most highly accomplished public women.
Somebody, somewhere along the line, has insisted they be perfect - they then have to try to be perfect and it gets in the way. In letters from university to a boy from high school, she showed an early anxiety about her squeamishness. She said she really couldn't stand the faceless masses and wondered if she could be a compassionate misanthrope, which she sort of is. She is compassionate in the large, towards the faceless collective. Another peculiar problem for Hillary Clinton is that polls taken among women over 45 show her to be deeply unpopular.