Next US President: Wishes and Expectactions

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Originally Posted by Torpedo Fodder

And so we come back to Hillary: If you were running the Democratic Party, would you really want to run a candidate who cannot win except by a very thin margin?

I suppose it depends on whether you want to run a candidate on their merits, or on their "electibility" (pedigree, southerness, down home swagger, degree to which the voter would like to have a beer with the candidate, etc). The disaster that has been the Bush presidency shows what the latter gets you.

edit: that's not a Hillary endorsement by the way, as I see her being every bit as devisive as Bush simply because, rightly or wrongly, she's just as polarizing.