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We will not have accomplished anything.
It's important to talk policy but policy talk becomes irrelevant if we don't win or if we win but don't have the margins neccesary in the House and Senate to overcome Republican stalling tactics.
Hillary is great, but she is a divisive figure guaranteed to unite the Rs against her and decreasing our chances of adding substantial margins in Congress.
Obama appeals to new voters, independents, and even moderate Republicans. I'm not talking frustrated conservatives like El Rushbo who say they will vote Hillary over Mcain out of spite, I'm talking actual moderate Rs who are fed up with their parties shennanigans.
This is a golden opportunity for us, not only to just win, but to win in a manner that fractures the Republican coalition of the last 30 years.
As for policy, we can go over the minutae of the merits of each candidates plans but in the end the reality is will be dictated by just how many votes we have in Congress. Hillary might have a slightly better stance on some issue then Obama, but if she is faced with a tightly divided Senate the final product will be inevitably watered down (See health care reform WJC first term).
The reality is policy differences between the two are narrow at worst and at best simply a difference in semantics.
With that being the case why should we settle for another tightly split congress facing a united and motivated opposition party?
Obama can break the pattern, Hillary will, through no fault of her own, maintain the pattern.
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