Terence Samuel on our "electability" hang-up:
So already, even before the Thanksgiving turkeys are bought or roasted, before the winter gloom completely envelops us, we are fully into the season of electability. This is the nefarious period during which voters, Democrats in particular, winnow the field of potential presidential candidates to those they like best, then discard those people for someone they think others will like better. The electability debate is often characterized as a nod to pragmatism, a triumph of practicality over ideology, and, of course, it comes with some familiar rituals and traditions, namely: hand-wringing, second-guessing, and self-doubt. This is unattractive behavior, but completely unavoidable.
Read the rest (and comment) here. --The Editors
