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Sean Wilentz spun a fantasy in his Salon piece about Clinton's electability. In the real world, it's Barack Obama who's more electable.
  • @Ana

    You do realize that it's difficult to take what you write seiously when you resort to name-calling. If you have a point about the article, make it.

    For myself, I am realistic enough to know that any argument for either Obama or Clinton as "more electable" is one that will have some truth and some assumption of certain conditions that may occur in the future. Since both candidates have very close margins in the popular vote, either scenario may be more or less accurate. The clear fact, however, is that we are NOT involved in speculation, we are involved with determining who the party nominee will be based on primary & caucus results. That's the way the rules are supposed to work. I have a feeling the DNC may change their superdelegate procedures, much as Pelosi has suggested, to remove a large share of the ability of party bigwigs to change election results.