or is that only true when it contradicts your original premise?  What do you mean track record? And why is there a presumption they prefer Hillary?  That's like saying "Judo is the greatest martial arts, prove me wrong".  No, you prove that Judo is the greatest martial art, then we'll talk.

If you mean she has won primaries in swing states, that is true in only a couple of cases, but Obama has won in several others (and don't give me BS about FL and MI, those weren't real primaries and any intellectually honest person knows that).  And anyway primary performance is not proof that a candidate will do better than the other in a general election.  General elections draw from a wider pool of voters and generally the nominee will draw over 90% of the voters who went for their primary opponent.  

There is pretty consistent polling data that shows Obama polling better than Hillary against McCain in Virginia, Colorado, New Hampshire, Oregon, Washington, Connecticut, North Carolina, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska.  Check the archives over at TPM for April and March for many polls (yes you too can research and find actual data that supports Howard Wolfson's talking points instead of just accepting them as fact).  http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpoi...

There is a case to be made for both candidates in swing states and it is pretty unreasonable and unwise to make electability your sole justification for voting for someone.  Wasn't that everyone's reason for getting behind John Kerry?????  I think Democrats have a pretty abysmal track record of thinking they know who is electable and then seeing them go down in flames.  Mondale, Dukakis, Kerry, Humphrey these were all establishment candidates who made electability and experience central to their campaign.  How well did those work out?  In short Democrats (and especially establishment Democrats) wouldn't know a good candidate if he/she came up and smacked them upside the head.

As far as being more popular in swing states as a hallmark of her candidacy, I would say a more consistent hallmark is having talking points that defy reason and people around that are willing to lap them up and parrot them back.