Hillary Clinton

This is what politics used to be, and at heart really is. It's legwork, and both male and female candidates have had to do it to achieve their victories. For example, look at all the years Harold Washington put in before he was elected the first black mayor of Chicago.

Now it certainly does play to Hillary Clinton's strengths to build a base this way, and the kind of emotional endurance required is more often ground into women than men, but both sexes can and do the long-haul legwork required.

Another aspect is online vs. real-life politics. There is a tendency to overstate the impact of online activism, particularly amongst a more connected demographic (young white college voters, for example.) Real life politics happens away from Tumblr and can surprise people who run smack into it (see all the commentary on the size of the Hillary vote vs. her discernible online support.)