Whether or not you believe that Hillary Clinton’s health care plan is better than Barack Obama’s, whatever your opinions are about whose economic plans are superior, and whether or not you think a change in the political strategy is necessary to win the White House back, one thing is certain-- Democrats will need to increase their numbers in the Senate and House to enact the plans of either Presidential candidate. So equal with policies and electability should be the question of coattails.
Because I live in Illinois and have worked in state government, I’ve been an Obama fan since the late 1990s. At the beginning of the presidential primary race, I was resigned to the fact that Hillary would win—just about everyone was. I don’t think anyone outside the immediate Obama circle had the ability to imagine that a freshman African-American senator had the ability to put together such a great campaign against the universally-perceived inevitable candidate with her rolodex, her contacts, her fundraising juggernaut.