What does electability mean? The most important factor in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary is also the most unknowable.
Both the reality and perception of electability have been the subject of rigorous research by academics and others.
." However, others have found that may be different when it comes to electing a president and sexism may have hurt Hillary Clinton at the ballot box., with some studies suggesting black candidates drive up African American turnout while performing a bit worse with white voters, though it's not clear race is the cause.
"We have to turn the conventional idea of electability on its head to understand what it means for 2020," she said."It's almost like Joe Biden is campaigning to an electorate two decades late."Biden's electability is based on his popularity with working-class white men in the Midwest, whose lack of support helped cost Clinton the 2016 election.
It's an argument Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., made to the Detroit branch of the NAACP last month to promote her own electability.
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