<p>Male voters must break their sexist inclinations so the country can &#8220;get over the hump&#8221; and elect its first female president, President Obama said Tuesday.</p> 
<p>In a message directed &#8220;to the guys out there&#8221; at a campaign rally at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, Obama said, &#8220;[T]here&#8217;s a reason why we haven&#8217;t had a woman president before&#8230;&#8221;</p> 
<p>&#8220;And we have to ask ourselves, as men &#8212; because I hope my daughters are going to be able to achieve anything they want to achieve &#8212; and I know that my wife is not just my equal but my superior,&#8221; he continued.</p> 
<p>&#8220;I want every man out there who&#8217;s voting to kind of look inside yourself and ask yourself, if you&#8217;re having problems with this stuff, how much of it is that we&#8217;re just not used to it. So that, like, when a guy is ambitious and out in the public arena and working hard, well, that&#8217;s okay; but when a woman suddenly does it, suddenly you&#8217;re all like, well, why is she doing that?&#8221; he added.</p> 
<p>Obama&#8217;s closing argument for his possible successor comes as GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has a slight edge over Hillary Clinton in the Buckeye State.</p> 
<p><a href="http://The RealClearPolitics average of Ohio polls" type="external">The RealClearPolitics average of Ohio polls</a>shows the mogul with a 2.5-percentage-point lead, with Trump getting 46.8 percent of the vote and Clinton 44.3 percent.</p>
Obama: Men need to get over their sexism and elect Clinton