One big message from the night: Senator Clinton is increasingly playing the gender card to make her case. Her speech showed that her message is partly aspirational, that she is fighting to break the highest and hardest glass ceiling. It is also based in sexism, she says, that misogyny is alive and well in 21st Century America.
Here’s the other thing about the returns that unfolded tonight. Again, it was a split-screen decision, and not just between Kentucky and Oregon. There is a real split-screen mental image here: Mrs. Clinton is winning states, by substantial margins, and yet she’s not gaining in superdelegates and is being hounded out of the race.