Regarding the first-name-lack-of-dignity -- this is not a surprise. Cast your mind all the way back to the primaries, where the leading candidates were Obama, McCain, and "Hillary." Some of us tried to make the point here but it wasn't well received.
well, if a mans opinion is worth anyhting when discussing a woman....
the Hillary thing i think was from her own impulse designed to seperate her identity from her husband - as in being a distinct brand within the Clinton umbrella - playing the I can make it on my own schtick also.
dont see anything sexists about that. didnt many of her campaign signs use Hillary rather than Clinton? correct me if in wrong, but in that case i dont think the use of Hillary was sexist (the treatment of her my manty media types on the other hand...)
and conversely i think many of her opponents also wanted to separate her from the popularity of her husband.
