Key to winning the White House? Candidates themselves are overrated, says political scientist
MinnPost
By Eric Black
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Today's Pennsylvania primary results are sure to provide fresh grist for the (self-serving and predictable) arguments that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to get out of the race for the good of the party and that she needs to stay in the race because she would be best able to restore the White House to Dem control.
It's perfectly normal and natural for Democrats (and their enablers in the news media) to obsess over the question of whether Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton matches up better against John McCain.
After all, trial heat polls suggest that McCain is in a virtual tie with either of the Dems. Obamians and Clintonites each have a list of 20 arguments that their candidate is the more electable. Each new poll, endorsement, speech and gaffe seems to create a new electability argument.
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By Eric Black
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Today's Pennsylvania primary results are sure to provide fresh grist for the (self-serving and predictable) arguments that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to get out of the race for the good of the party and that she needs to stay in the race because she would be best able to restore the White House to Dem control.
It's perfectly normal and natural for Democrats (and their enablers in the news media) to obsess over the question of whether Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton matches up better against John McCain.
After all, trial heat polls suggest that McCain is in a virtual tie with either of the Dems. Obamians and Clintonites each have a list of 20 arguments that their candidate is the more electable. Each new poll, endorsement, speech and gaffe seems to create a new electability argument.
(Continued here.)
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