The current field of Democratic candidates is the best we've seen in a long time, and so there is no reason for Democrats to be using electability as one of their main criteria for the nominee.

I, and all the government statistics on job hiring and creation, happen to disagree with your rosy outlook for the economy. The economy has been and is continuing to improve for the wealthy though, I'll grant you that. But not for the working and middle class families.

I have no problem whatsoever with Democrats deciding that Dean isn't electable. I do have a problem with the unelected media demonizing a candidate that threatens them, just because they can though, which is what I see happening with the Dean candidacy. The mainstream conglomerate media demonizing a candidate the way they have Dean should make people sit up and take notice, IMO. Not in a sour grapes sort of way, either. We need much more discussion of how the mainstream conglomerate media manipulates the images of candidates, and thereby the outcome of elections. A lot more discussion.