Reply #13: Apples and oranges [View All]

[beandoc]

Remember when the clinton camp's message was about electoral college math, saying she won states with more electoral college votes (i think was just before they were claiming to be winning in states that don't start with a vowel). Anyway, it was a bad argument and the rebuttal was that the results of a democratic primary don't correlate well with the results in the general election. The dynamic is different in Dem vs Repub compared to Dem vs Dem, and the electorate composition changes and increases in size significantly.
So it's not completely illogical to think that someone who didn't win a primary could win a general election vs a Repub. I don't agree that she would be better than Obama vs McCain, but to be consistent I don't think it's an position I could refute with anything other than an opinion (it's not outside of the realm of logic).