Letters to the Editor
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@johncp
First of all, you can't equate support for Hillary at her own campaign events for the primaries to the kind of support she'd receive across the country, so just because you know Democrats who are excited about her now doesn't mean she'll get votes in a general election. That's like the teary college student in Manhattan who was so distraught when George McGovern lost: "But everyone I knew was voting for him!" Like that student, you need to get out a little more often.
And second, I agree that (most of) those charges against Hillary you cite are untrue, unfair, or mentally unbalanced. Hell, I've voted for her twice for Senate!. But that's my point: you're saying what you think SHOULD be the case, whereas I'm just talking about electability, and those are the impressions of her, especially in the South and West, true or not.
I haven't seen much evidence that people change their minds much during an election season. Definitely after it (which is why GWB gets so little support now from even people who voted for him), but election seasons only seem to serve to cement people's core feelings about the candidates, and the "undecideds" are just digging to uncover their core feelings, not to evaluate truly the relative merits of the candidates themselves.