Clinton: I have best chance vs. GOP [Democratic rivals who claim she's too polarizing...]

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Clinton: I have best chance vs. GOP

By AMY LORENTZEN, Associated Press Writer 56 minutes ago

Hillary Rodham Clinton maintained Sunday that she's the best candidate to win against Republicans, saying she has more experience battling the GOP than any other candidate in the Democratic field.

"I believe that I have a very good argument that I know more about beating Republicans than anybody else running. They've been after me for 15 years, and much to their dismay, I'm still standing," she said in answer to a woman's question about her electability. "I'm leading in all the polls, I'm beating them in state after state after state."

Clinton has been widely criticized by her Democratic rivals who claim she's too polarizing, and can't bring the party together to win the White House.

But she says she has support from around the country, including "more Democratic support from the so-called red states than anybody else running." She told the crowd of hundreds gathered at Perry High School that she has more U.S. senators supporting her than her rivals, as well as other lawmakers from states that "Democrats have a hard time winning."

"I think they have looked at the field and figured out who can best beat the Republicans," Clinton said.

She added that when she ran for the Senate in 2000, a lot of people argued that she couldn't win.

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Who here would have thought that a traitor and a political nobody from the uber liberal Socialist States of the NE would come within one state of beating an incumbent president during a time of open warfare and unparalleled economic prosperity?

This is the crux of it, the single most important factor for 2008. The caliber of the candidate and his/her positions have become secondary to the caliber of the nation's voters. Alarming.