...and this makes Hillary Clinton more electable in November because....?

Like Blue States will ever vote for a GOP candidate over a DNC candidate if the DNC standard bearer isn't Hillary?

Really?

Says who?

Well...besides idiots like Ed Rendell and a few other Clinton flacks.

I can't believe that professional political pundits aren't leaping on this retardedness.

Exactly. This line should have been squashed coming out of the gate. It makes me throw up in my mouth a little every time I here some idiot repeat it. It makes me throw up in my mouth a little more every time there's a reasonably intelligent person sitting there, not calling them on this BS.

In fact the opposite argument makes about a thousand times more sense to make. Under normal circumstances if you have two primary candidates, and you have one of them winning the dependable blue vote and another winning a good share of moderates and crossovers...then the former is viewed as the left-wing darling, and the latter is the safer, more moderate choice. The dependable blue vote will come around to the moderate if he's the ultimate winner--given that their other option is blood red--but if the liberal darling wins, say sayonara to at least a good share of moderates. And all of a sudden, you're marginalized as the left-wing candidate and the red guy swoops in to get his 55% of the vote.

Of course, this year's kind of topsy-turvy, and which candidate between Hillary and Obama is actually the more liberal and/or perceived liberal is at least up for question and may not ultimately gel with where the dependable blue vote is going, but...long story short the geography of where they're winning gives Obama the more compelling argument of the two, if either has got one. Oo, you can win Massachusetts, Hillary? Well damn, I'm SHOOR it'll be a McCain landslide there if we nominate Barack! Sheesh.

The Clintons have never looked farther down the road than where their feet are getting ready to step. As if the dog crap doesn't exist beyond where the front end of their leading shoe touches. Typical corporate quarter-to-quarter thinking.

Stupid.