Feminist Support for Hillary Clinton

I have a series of questions for people who support Hillary Clinton on feminist grounds. Please hear me out - I'm asking this out of genuine, honest curiosity. For the record, I am male and I did vote for Obama, but I'm not opposed to the idea of Hillary Clinton being president. I believe she is qualified to be president of the United States. I'm not of the "I'm okay with a woman president, but not this one" mind. If she is the Democratic nominee after the convention, I will most likely vote for her.

1) In comparing Obama and Clinton's voting records and policy statements, are there any specific feminist-friendly (by your judgment or your definition) policy proposals that Clinton supports but Obama opposes? Are there policy proposals that feminists generally oppose that Obama supports and Clinton opposes? What are some of these? Keep in mind that I'm not asking about Clinton's position on matters of feminist concern, but how she compares with Obama on those issues. So I'm not interested merely in whether Clinton supports equal pay for women, whether her position on the issue is better than Obama's.

2) Hypothetically, would you support Clinton over Obama if Clinton had the exact same Senate voting record and the exact same campaign positions, but were a man? If Obama were a woman?

3) From what I can see of their Senate voting records, Obama is generally adjudged to be more liberal than Clinton. http://nj.nationaljou.... ; Do you agree or disagree with this characterization? Why or why not? If you agree with this characterization, does it bother you? Do you consider it a plus? Why or why not?

4) If the desire to elect the first female president is a strongly important factor in your support for a female candidate, how far would a female candidate have to be from you on the issues before you would be willing to support a male candidate with whom you more closely agreed instead? I doubt too many feminists would support Kay Bailey-Hutchinson or Elizabeth Dole over Barack Obama. Also, is it important to you that Clinton would be the first female president? If she were to win the general election, in a future election cycle with a primary season like this one (a female candidate and a strongly liberal and/or racial minority male candidate), would the female candidate's gender be less of a factor for you? I'm not saying that it's necessarily wrong to take the fact of Clinton's gender into account in making the decision to support her, but I am trying to determine how much weight you give that factor and why.

5) If you believe that it is justifiable to support Clinton primarily or in large part because she is a woman, independently of her stance on the issues, do you believe that it is also justifiable for black voters to support Obama primarily or in large part because he is black? Why or why not? If you're black and female, which is more important to you, Clinton's gender or Obama's race? Why?

Basically, what I'm getting at is the question of whether it's more Clinton's gender or her stance on the issues that drives the strong feminist support for her. If it's the latter or some combination of the two, how does she beat Obama on the issues? If it's the former, how much more important is that than the issues? How important should it be?

I am NOT posting this to start a debate on whether Clinton or Obama should win the nomination and I am NOT trying to persuade anyone to support Obama. I am trying only to discern the reasoning behind feminist support for Clinton on particularly feminist grounds, however you define those.