Who is really, REALLY the better general election candidate?

My esteemed fellow Kosite, dhonig wrote this straight-down-the-middle diary highlighting why primary polls are far better at judging general election outcomes than general election polls. His rationale is that Democrats need to bring out the base before they can win any general election, not to mention that Secretary Clinton is leading in these polls for states that don’t vote for weeks or months. *cough* cherry pick *cough* Sorry, got that cold that’s going around.

It’s important to remember we have yet to see Senator Sanders make up huge gaps in polling in relatively short periods of time.

Now of course we all remember in 2008 how then Senator Obama lost NH, MA, NY, NJ, RI, PA, OH, IN, FL, MI, NM, NV and CA in the Primaries and then went on to lose each and every one of those states in the General to President McCain by an electoral vote margin of 535 (Thank God for the District of Columbia huh?) As we all know in the primary if you vote for a candidate and that candidate doesn’t win you will never vote for them in the general election, that’s just the way it is.