The key to victory in November, for any Democratic candidate, will be whether women continue to show up and vote in the historic percentages (of the electorate) demonstrated in in the primaries (so far).

What may be happening is a new political reality in which a new generation of women, with entirely different political attitudes and needs than the generation before them, is just reaching the age (40-60) when a generation really begins to show up at the polls and exercise its political power.

It was men, much more than women, entering that age group back in the late 70s (Silent and younger WWII generation men) who ushered in, gave energy to and sustained the Reagan Revolution (the "angry white male").

In the Boomer generation, which is now coming more fully into power as the WWII and Silent generations depart the scene, the energy and desire for political change and for recognition of their accomplishments and needs, comes most strongly from women. Hillary Clinton may be benefitting not because women are voting for her simply as a woman, but because, as a woman of that generation, she is just in a better position to hear, see and speak to this demographic, and is less invested than the men in the old, traditionally male, political narratives.

I use to fear McCain. But if women continue to vote in unprecedented numbers, I think it means the dawning of a new era in which he will be at a disadvantage, just as much as any other Republican candidate on the scene today -- as the "angry white male" shuffles off the stage and is replaced with the "fed up female."