Hillary Clinton holds large leads over her potential GOP challengers for the Presidency.
The latest in a string of polls showing Hillary Clinton would defeat all GOP challengers in 2016:
The national survey finds 53 to 56 percent support for Clinton among registered voters against each of these potential Republican candidates, while they get 39 to 41 percent.
One of the most
interesting findings is Clinton's performance among white voters:
Each also has the support of half of white voters overall, far fewer than a GOP nominee needs to prevail, given whites’ shrinking share of the country’s population. (Romney won 59 percent of whites and lost the 2012 election nonetheless.)
Clinton also defeats all of the potential GOP challengers by at least 20 points among women.
So Hillary Clinton clearly does not appear to suffer from an "electability" problem and concerns about her holding together the Obama Coalition are overblown at best.
That said, I certainly can respect the efforts to defeat her for the Democratic nomination but I think a Plan B is also in order—to wit—don't let a Democratic president be defined as the left flank of American politics.