Touting Clinton's Electability, Using Every Available Source

[sniffa]

As she continues to press on, Hillary Clinton's campaign is less about health care, experience or solutions than a factor no one would have guessed at the beginning: electability.

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Both former president Bill Clinton and his wife now spend much of their stump speeches delivering complicated electoral math lessons on how Hillary Clinton will be a better general election candidate than Obama, citing her appeal in Michigan, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, based on primary results in those states.

In a speech in Kentucky on Monday, Clinton even cited an estimate by Karl Rove's consulting firm that suggested she would be the favorite in more states than Obama in a general election.

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The argument, while reflecting a campaign where a group of Democratic Party officials will cast the final votes, show how far this race has come. Clinton entered the race as the candidate most popular among Democrats but with party activists worried she could not win enough swing voters to win a general election.

The former president's arugment is also based on a host of assumptions that do not appear to be convincing to superdelegates, who are moving toward Obama in droves.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/20/touting_clintons_electability.html

[virgdem]

1. Welcome to Hillary's world...

THE TWILIGHT ZONE!!!!!!!!!

[sniffa]

3. Doo doo doo, doo doo doo

[bowens43]

2. Hillary is unelectable. She was never a viable candidate.

[anonymous171]

4. She would be a cakewalk for the republicans. They;'d just label her as a liar, then *poof*

President John McCain.

[sniffa]

5. More sexist bullshit

Unelectability is only an issue with Obama.

[suston96]

6. Electability?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6040357&mesg_id=6049438