18. Obama singling out women — With the election coming up, it's becoming incredible important whom President Obama chooses to focus his energies on, and how he goes about doing it. He's one of the first presidents to ignore traditional press in order to speak on local radio shows, appear on talk shows, and in check-out-line magazines, something that he's been criticized for, but something we find totally compelling in a modern president. He's chosen women time and time again, whether it's deciding to give the commencement speech at Barnard instead of Columbia, picking Glamour as his first interview after weeks of radio silence, or appearing on The View after Mitt Romney said he'd never do such a thing.

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