If Hillary Clinton is the most electable, she should not be trying to win the Democratic nomination through Superdelegates and seating MI and FL deleg
BringitonGOP said 02/20, 02:51 PM
Hillary Clinton has continually claimed that she is the most electable candidate. However, she is basically hanging her campaign on having more superdelegates and seating the MI and FL delegations.
If Hillary was the most electable candidate, she would be winning the states that she is running in. Regardless of if she has won the largest populated states, she needs to have proven that she can win a broad base of the country. That broad base includes red states, as well as rural areas of blue states. She has not been able to win either.
Furthermore, her claiming that MI and FL make her more electable is false. Obama wasn't on the MI ballot, making her win there irrelevant. Since she was the only one that Democrats could vote for, it doesn't show she's electable.
Furthermore, her win in FL is more indicative of her electability, but barely. While other candidates were on the ballot, no one campaigned in that state. If campaigns had occurred, most likely the results would have been different, or in the least closer.
Without superdelegates and invalid primaries, Hillary can't be the nominee and thus is not the most electable candidate.
PhilSandifer said 02/20, 03:50 PM
I must disagree (and I say this as an Obama supporter). The American political system is not one of direct democracy - it's an often complex political system that involves more than the will of the voters. This is perhaps a failing in it, but it remains the case that political maneuvering is as vital a part of the process as is appealing to voters.
But more to the point, your argument seems to hinge on the assumption that MI/FL and the superdelegates are the only way Clinton is trying to win. She's not - she's also running an aggressive ground game in Texas and in 2004's biggest swing state, Ohio. She's attempting to demonstrate a broad base of political skill - appealing to voters of many types of states (her Arkansas win, in particular, is significant here) effective political maneuvering and operations, and, vitally, support of the party machinery and establishment.
That doesn't make her the best candidate - as I said, I strongly support Obama. But the reason to reject her is not that she's working within the political system as it exists. That is, after all, the political system she'll have to govern in.
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