Clinton's opponents were quick to predict that the flap over the archives would dent her claim to electability.
Bush's solid lead over McCain is based on a number of factors: experience, leadership, and electability.
All three national polls asked voters the electability question in a general election matchup.
And since it partly reflects his perceived electability, any doubts about that could scupper him.
Clinton has also continued to tout her electability, saying she's more fit to go up against Sen.
The difference in electability looks small, and neither Democrat looks like a sure winner or a sure loser.
The issue of electability in the general election emerged immediately as a centerpiece.
"You know, money is certainly a helpful yardstick, but it's not the only indicator of popularity or electability, " DeVore says.
Voters who considered themselves just somewhat conservative, and voters who valued electability as the top characteristic in a candidate tended toward Romney.
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Experience and electability in November -- the hallmarks of New York Sen.
Republican voters may reconsider Mr. Romney's claim to electability and conclude that this isn't the year for a wealthy financier to run for president.
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If it works, the recent bounce in Mr Brown's popularity may come to be seen as just the start of a journey back to electability.
But in Saturday's poll, Clinton and Obama were tied on that measure, and now Obama has a 42 percent to 31 percent edge over Clinton on electability.
Most South Carolinians, Arizonans, Oklahomans and Delaware and Missouri voters polled said issues, not electability -- a candidate's chance of beating President Bush in November -- determined their vote.
But among those exit poll respondents motivated by electability, more than half said they supported Kerry, and less than 20 percent each said they pulled the lever for Dean, retired Gen.
The poll also found that the dispute over Kerry's antiwar activism after the Vietnam War is having more of a negative effect on his candidacy than questions about Bush's National Guard service are having on his electability.
Regrettably, our best hope to get things back on track occurs during the brief time period following national elections, when our representatives are no longer immediately concerned with how a particular vote will affect their electability prospects.
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Stephanie, is that a fair criticism and is this campaign damaging either her or Senator Obama to the point where they are becoming unelectable - where each of them is having an electability problem in the fall?
He raised the question as to whether or not Republicans are talking so much about Senator Clinton because they're looking forward to running against her, which raises the electability question: if you're Democrat and you really want to win the White House, is Hillary Clinton the right Democrat to put forward?
Kerry was hoping that same issue would lift him to a primary victory in Oklahoma, where he was the top choice of those in that state who said it was most important that the Democratic candidate be able to beat Bush, though less than a third of respondents said electability was more important than issues.
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