Bernie is electable. ALL of our Democrats are
By kos
Daily Kos Staff
Monday February 24, 2020 · 10:58 AM PST
The problem with electability as a measure is that its utter horseshit. No one can divine the twists and turns a campaign makes, the way public opinion can rise and fall, and the excitement that various candidates generate or dont.
President Barack Obama won 69 million votes in 2008the highest tally in American historyafter a campaign in which Hillary Clinton, her campaign, much of the media, and heck, Democratic voters argued that she was more electable. Clinton literally took the race all the way to the national convention and, making this argument, tried to have the superdelegates overturn the will of the voters. (Bernie Sanders repaid that obnoxiousness by doing the exact same thing to Clinton eight years later.)
Yet nothing speaks to how ridiculous the electability notion is more than the way those numbers fluctuate over time.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/24/1921655/-Bernie-is-electable-ALL-of-our-Democrats-are