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John The Electable.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
Election: The new buzz for the Democrats suddenly is who's "electable." That may work during the primaries, but they'll need something more come November.
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's extraordinary resurgence in the polls marks him as this year's Lazarus, back from the political dead.
Written off as all but finished just a month and a half ago, many political pundits now say Kerry's virtually unbeatable in the Democratic primaries. Some polls even have him running neck and neck with President Bush nationally.
It's not that the American people have suddenly discovered his brilliance or fallen in love with his policies. Or that the media have come to think of him as charming, rather than "insufferably pompous," as one pundit recently termed him.
No, it's that Democrats have suddenly discovered they think Kerry has that one thing they so crave: electability. Just look at the results of the recent New Hampshire primary, where Kerry won 39% of the vote.
In exit polling, 20% of voters cited "ability to beat Bush" as their top consideration. Not Kerry's position on health care. Or the war in Iraq. Or deficits or spending. But his "ability to beat Bush."
For those voters, Kerry -- no matter what his defects as a candidate -- looks like a messiah. He won a whopping 62% of their votes.
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