Here's The Problem With Hillary Clinton's Electability Argument

[awake]

"Hillary Clinton may have something of an electability problem.

The problem is not that Democratic voters don't think she's electable. It's that they don't care who's electable.

That's too bad for Clinton, since she's made electability a cornerstone of her campaign. Her ads now running in Iowa and New Hampshire describe her as "the one candidate who can stop" a Republican.

To try to gauge how much Clinton's electability argument is resonating, HuffPost teamed with YouGov to probe the views of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters. What we found is that only 8 percent say they're backing somebody who isn't their top choice, but whom they see as more electable. Sixty-two percent say they're supporting their favorite candidate regardless of that consideration, while the rest are undecided or don't plan to vote."

read more here;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-electability-bernie-sanders_us_56aa39bde4b0d82286d515ad

[Hoyt]

1. Oh, that explains why Clinton is so far ahead in the polls nationwide. People just flat like her and

think she'd be best Prez. And here all along, I thought it was because people thought she had best chance of being elected.

[Maedhros]

2. Clinton's campaign is indicative of the Democrat's more general failure to develop a message.

The rank-and-file want concrete proposals about what the candidate will do for us. However, the Party in general and Clinton specifically are only interested in telling us "we'll beat the Republicans."

Yeah, great. Then what?

[onecaliberal]

3. I don't know why she would run ads saying she is the only one who can stop a republican when every

poll shows her losing to one or more of them.

[gyroscope]

4. Because she is dishonest

The same polls show Sanders beating all the Republican frontrunners.

[emsimon33]

5. Hillary is the "meh" candidate.