Reply #14: this is so tiresome

[frogcycle]

a poll of what the likely democratic primary voters think electability is does not mean jack shit. This thing has pages and pages of stats on how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. The OP misleads: the 69 to 10 is "which is more likely to win the nomination", NOT which is more "electable." Plenty of people who don't want Clinton to be the nominee and who would vote for roadkill rather than her would STILL respond that she is most likely to win the nomination. Not happy about it, but that is what looks likely. And only 50% think she's tough enough; practically nobody thinks any of the others are. Whoopee! If that's how NH dems feel about the candidate field, we're in a world of hurt. So they publish these meaningless numbers and then a DUer distorts them to say she is the most "electable". Shhheee-ut, Chris Matthews is more trustworthy when he describes Al Gore!


A poll pitting each dem candidate one-on-one vs each rep candidate with a representative sampling of probable general election voters is the only way to measure "electability."

Everything else is supposition.