I understand this impulse, but what I’d like to remind my fellow Democrats is that we are very bad at assessing electability. Kerry vs. Dean? I don’t know that Dean wins in ‘04 but Kerry’s chief attribute over Dean was electability and he lost.
I understand this impulse, but what I’d like to remind my fellow Democrats is that we are very bad at assessing electability. Kerry vs. Dean? I don’t know that Dean wins in ‘04 but Kerry’s chief attribute over Dean was electability and he lost.
Barack Hussein Obama. The one time nervous Dems nominate someone widely perceived by conventional wisdom as less electable goes on to a landslide win.