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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

A key part of this is that a 50-state, 20-candidate, 18-month-long presidential primary is hard to win and serves as a filtering process. e.g. if Bernie has the skills to win the primary, that tells us he's probably a competent (or better) general election candidate. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 19, 2019 Hibernated

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In general if you're dividing candidates into "can win" and "can't win" piles, you're doing it wrong. I don't think electability is some unknowable concept, but it's ambiguous and uncertain this early on. Maybe e.g. we're talking about the difference between a 40% chance vs. 60%. — PolitiTweet.org

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Bernie Sanders can’t beat Donald Trump in 2020, former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina tells ABC News' @jonkarl:… https://t.co/DHzxq0ytVF

Posted April 19, 2019 Hibernated

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@tedfrank Yeah I have... complicated thoughts on this and don't necessarily disagree with any of that. But I do think the intensely competitive nature of presidetial nomination races increases the lower bound on candidate quality. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 19, 2019 Hibernated

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