Left concern about HRC is NOT "hatred"...it's about what we stand for as a party and a country

[woo me with science]

322. LOL. Yes, that's exactly what I was describing.

Very general, up-or-down ratings of the politician compared to other politicians, and the most familiar one (also the one constantly being mentioned in the MSM as "inevitable"!) wins. What a surprise...not.

No polling on or checking of awareness or understanding of the candidate's actual policies, and reliance on total self-report when it comes to the labels, "liberal" or "moderate" (which is *especially* funny since we see every day even here at DU how valid self-reported labels are, when we have incessant defenders of Bush policies routinely describing themselves as liberal Democrats!).

In other words....the most familiar Democrat wins.

And wyldwolf, even IF we WERE to grant you your IMO ridiculous contention that most American voters know Hillary's policies inside and out and understand *exactly* how corporatist and neocon she really is, the fact remains that they still *don't* know her potential challengers very well yet....so side-by-side comparisons by name at this point would remain largely meaningless.

I'm afraid that repeating the very stuff I was responding to and howling "proooogresssiiivvee" doesn't make your case any more convincing.