Hillary's unelectability is a myth created by her opposition. Obama was considered unelectable at the beginning of this race. GW was considered unelectable all the way up until Sept-Oct in both 2000 & 2004. Bill Clinton was un-re-electable in 1996 and unelectable through Super Tuesday in 1992.
This is an election strategy used every four years that nonetheless no one seems to recall. While I've come to accept this as a political reality, I do expect more from serious political historians and political scientists. Rule number one in electoral politics is that there is nothing new under the sun. Remember what has worked and not worked in the past and why.
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"The courts that first rode the warhorse of virtual representation into battle on the res judicata front invested their steed with near-magical properties." ~27 F.3d 751
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