Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that some of her difficulties in campaigning “may be gender-linked” and that some of the mistakes she’s made are due to the “inherent tension” between her need to research and think issues through and members of the press being on deadline during an interview with POLITICO’s Glenn Thrush on the “Off Message” podcast released on Wednesday. Hillary stated, [relevant remarks begin around 14:05] “I hope I’m a better candidate. I feel like I am. I mean, I have said, in this campaign, ‘Look, I’m not a natural politician.’ I’m not somebody who, like my husband or Barack Obama, just — it’s music, right? I am someone who loves doing the job that I have. I would love having the job of president, because I know how to do it. I know what the country needs. But the campaigning part is hard for me. I think I’ve gotten better–.” She added, “Well, you know, and some of this may be personal to me, and some of it, from all the literature I’ve read, may be gender-linked.” Hillary elaborated, “[W]hen I did my announcement with Daniel Patrick Moynihan on his farm…it was incredibly hard for me