Opinion: What we talk about when we talk about 'electability'
In this edition: The electability chorus, the Bernie and Biden wars, and the polls that make us wonder whether we're missing something.If you use Flipboard, you canDUBUQUE, Iowa — Colleen Kersch, 51, arrived early for Joe Biden's first campaign visit to her city. She took her place in line, wearing a T-shirt that read"A Woman's Place is in the House and the Senate," but she was not pining for a female presidential candidate.
Just as many voters said that they had come to support Biden because he seemed best positioned to defeat President Trump — sometimes offering the names of candidates they considered more inspiring but less electable. And several voters struggled to explain why, if he did defeat Trump, Biden would be able to succeed in his agenda where the Obama-Biden administration struggled.
"The most important factor that we must determine in the Democratic nomination process is who can win,” Harold Schaitberger, the president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, the only union to make a 2020 endorsement so far, said t Biden's first rally in Pittsburgh."We can’t have a nominee that’s too far left... a candidate that has high-minded ideals, maybe honorable ideas, but little chance of winning.
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