Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Fit or able to be elected, especially to public office.
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- adjective
able to beelected tooffice
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Examples
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Obama supporters, electable is the one who win the big states, it does not take a lot to know that.
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Yeah, whats funny to me too is people say she has more experience, however he has been in electable office longer then she has.
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Tearing down her opponent then turning around in the same sentence and saying "see he's not electable" is ridiculous.
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I have heard this and heard this and heard this and not ONCE have I heard the media deal with this question: How electable is Hillary really going to be if Obama wins more popular votes, more states, and more pledged delegates only to have all of that overturned by the fat cat superdelegates?
Blitzer: Should Clinton's swing state edge be a factor? 2008
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Unless I'm mistaken, being electable is about getting votes, and Obama appears to be more successful in this regard than Hillary.
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How he could possibly be considered electable is still unfathomable to me!
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How electable is a candidate when a good percentage of their votes come from the opposing team?
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Talk of Hillary Clinton being more electable is ridiculous.
Poll: Obama gaining support with key Clinton demographics 2008
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The Clintons themselves were not electable from the start and their sleazy campaign is yet more proof that they willl lose to McCain in a landslide.
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What has puzzled me throughout this whole agrument that Hillary presents, "I am more electable", is if you are such a dynamo and the people love you soooooooooooooo much, WHY AREN'T YOU WINNING?
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