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In reply to the discussion: Did you hear Crystal Ball's rant on the Cycle asking Hillary not to run? [View all]quakerboy
(13,920 posts)I say plain speaker. You say "not runnable", I say "biracial lawyer/community organizer with a name that rhymes with Americas public enemy number one just got elected US president twice"
"Not runnable" is pure conjecture. I can assert the same of Hillary. I can say the same of literally any candidate you can name. Lets look to facts, at least. Warren won when she ran. In comparison Hillary can only claim 2 out of three as her record. Those are the only hard and fast fact present in this scenario.
I think its more than fair to argue that Obama proved that perception of "electability" is a matter of conjecture, not fact, and whether Hillary, Warren, or anyone else is runnable (nice new word for electability, unless you care to redefine it?) is more a matter for history books after an election than statements of hard fact before an election that is still multiple years away, with a midterm in between now and then.