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i dont know if hillary clinton is "electable" or not yet.
i'm not sure how anyone would: we collectively are moving through the charade of agency now at its first level (the primary ritual)...no-one knows quite what the opposing tickets will be and it seems to me that it is entirely possible that the question of electability is only to some extent a function of, say, the conservative fashioning of clinton as some socialist Devil, and mostly a function of what the choices look like.
if, say, some paleolithic ticket emerges from the right--anything featuring mccain, say, or--funnier still--huckabee--that clinton would be in quite good shape.
she would be far more vulnerable if the republicans were to nominate and actual moderate--romney.
but the same kind of drift to the right that was of a piece with construcint clinton as socialist devil may mean that the republican voting base is too conservative for romney.
what i think folk are banking on who oppose hillary clinton from the right is that the process of making her into a fictional socialist will make of her a wedge issue and that right identity politics will over-ride the catastrophe that has been the bush period in shaping votes.
personally, i think they're dreaming.
but really, this is entirely speculative.
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