All biases aside, Barack Obama is simply the better General Election candidate against John McCain. If you like Clinton and want to vote for her, thats fine, but don’t be fooled into believing that she is more likely to win…

Obama is the more electable candidate for 3 reasons:

1) Obama will have an easier time explaining his position on the Iraq War. Clinton initially voted for the war and later against. Now I’m not trying to demean Clinton, only to give the facts that with McCain as the nominee national defense and specifically the Iraq War will be a huge issue and Obama has the advantage of always having been against the war. Thus with Obama as the nominee, the two candidates will have views as different as black and white. This will really help the Democrats get all the anti-war voters, which are the majority.

2) Hilary Clinton is currently viewed as the “experience” candidate, while Obama is the “change” candidate. Since Obama has 12 years in elected office compared to Clinton’s 8, I don’t much appreciate the simple stereotype (even though I do give her some credit for her years in the White House). However, we must deal in facts and those are the current stereotypes. But in the General Election, McCain is BY FAR the experience candidate as he was virtually born in the Senate and while not in the Senate he was fighting for his country and was a POW. McCain’s strengths trump Clinton’s! So what would the new stereotypes be? McCain – “the experienced in foreign and domestic affairs” : and Clinton – “the Democrat”… However, with Obama as the candidate it will be once again Change vs. Experience, and I like those odds considering the advantage Democrats automatically have over Republicans.

3) MOST IMPORTANTLY! Clinton is a glass ceiling. She is winning not so much by gaining votes but by keeping them. Those who support her have done so the whole time because everybody knows her name, Obama is not as well known and must simply continue to take voters away from her. The more time given, the less people will be voting for her – which is the opposite of Obama. This correlates into McCain, whose OBVIOUS deficiency is his own conservative base. McCain does well with independents and even some Dems. but he is having a terrible time with his own base and will not be able to energize them (although I guarantee Clinton will, just not in the way she would want). So come General Election time, the best Democratic candidate will be one who has a strong support among Dems. (which Obama does/will), one who does REALLY well with independents (which ONLY Obama does), and one who can even challenge the Republican base (which ONLY Obama can possibly do). The last part is key, because if McCain can’t win the conservative base, that leaves many Republicans who would truly consider voting for Obama. Also, as was seen on Super Tuesday, Obama did really well in the South! However, they would never vote for Clinton, whose name is virtually burned in effigy in the South…

Such arguments used for Clinton’s better electability are such ambiguous statements as “I’ve been through this before”. Whatever that means… Its called an election versus a Republican, all Dems. have been through “that” before. I agree she has been through it worse and more often, but that doesn’t guarantee a win by any means, especially when compared to the 3 logical reasons as stated above.

Thus, whether you want to vote for him or not, Obama is logically the best General Election candidate the Democrats have, Period. To be completely honest, a win by Barack Obama would be a nightmare for John McCain…