2 blog reactions to http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/Whos_unelectable_now.html

maybe not. All I know is that Clinton has been far more honest and trustworthy than McCain’s been in this campaign, and yet, she’s trailing him on this issue by a whopping 23 points. Not surprisingly, the Obama campaign’s David Plouffe welcomed the numbers. “It will be next to impossible to win a general election if more than half of the people think that you are not trustworthy,” he said, after citing Clinton’s poor, sub-50-percent Gallup rating on honesty and trustworthiness.

in terms of the states she can put in play, and she does have this issue around trustworthiness that will give her no margin for error ... It's hard to alleviate that if you continually engage in this misleading of voters." As the Politico's Ben Smith points out, Penn had previously come under fire for similar comments about Obama. The Clinton memo: At this point, it's no secret that the Obama campaign is in political hot water given the news stories of the last few weeks and is desperate to change the