We simply cannot ignore electability

[crazytown]

We simply cannot ignore what happened to campaigns that bet the farm on electability


November 4, 2007.
http://abcnews.go.com/images/PollingUnit/1050a1ElectionYear-Out.pdf

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. I see what you did there

Our top 4-5 candidates are all highly electable, although one has an apparent ticking time bomb in the form of cognitive decline that could severely affect his electability come the general...

[crazytown]

4. Absolutely not.

All candidates put themselves forward as electable.

However, if you put too many eggs in that basket, and suffer set backs in the primaries, you do not have an omelette.

[LanternWaste]

18. Who is arguing to specifically put ALL eggs in one basket?

or is that simply another straw man... a fun thing to argue against despite no one saying as such?

[crazytown]

19. Where did I say All eggs?

[Hoyt]

2. That poll was sure right about Edwards.

[crazytown]

5. I lost friends telling people he was a con man.

He has a special place in my heart.

[thesquanderer]

7. Edwards struck me as a phoney, but I still intended to vote for him.

I agreed with his positions even though I was doubtful of his sincerity. But I figured he would probably govern based on the positions that got him elected, because that would be the route to re-election, so I was comfortable with the vote. But he was off the ticket before my state's primary, so I switched to Obama, who I felt was the slightly more left of the two centrists.

[crazytown]

9. In 2007 he was ultra-selfrightous about Iraq

But I listened to the IWR vote - he was one of the worst, and went on to push for the war.

[guillaumeb]

3. "Electability" is an intangible.

And, given enough advertising and media coverage, voters can be persuaded that up is down.

[honest.abe]

6. Not surprising that Hillary would be considered to be more electable than Barack Hussein Obama.

Most thought America was not ready to elect a black guy with a scary middle name.

The situation now is not that the opponents are scary, its that Biden is simply very popular and gives voters comfort that he can handle this.

[JI7]

8. it shows people will change their minds if a candidate can convince

others to support them.

[TwilightZone]

10. "bet the farm on electability"

That doesn't make any sense. She's ahead in everything in your poll, not just electability.

Just because it's the highest doesn't mean that it was her only focus. It's a poll; it has nothing to do with what she or her supporters focused on. It certainly wasn't just electability.

One could only come to your conclusion by ignoring everything but one data point.

[crazytown]

11. I have three memories from the time - electability, inevitability and ready on day one.

all of which were about, put aside your preferences on policy and get with the program.

[4139]

12. Trump was unelectable, but he chose the strategy of...

becoming the passionate fire-breathing dragon of the tea party.

I want a fire-breathing dragon! Right now Warren, Sanders are warming up. Harris has potential.

[JI7]

13. Trump was propped up by Russians

[crazytown]

14. So many one off interlocking events and actions got Trump over the line.

including a dead campaign dragged onto the convention floor.

[UniteFightBack]

15. Hillary should of won in 2008 and then we'd be electing Obama now. If everybody would of just

listened to me, none of this would be happening!

I voted Hillary in 2008. I thought Obama needed more experience and I figured he has PLENTY of time to be president down the road.

I always vote with my HEAD.

[JI7]

16. Hillary would have won in 2016 if not for Russian attacks

those same attacks would have been used against Obama.

[UniteFightBack]

17. And Obama would of whipped rumps ass in 2016, no doubt. nt