Good Question!

The reason is in 2008, the Democrats need to win a minimum of 2 and maybe up to 6 states we did not win in '04 to win the presidency. These states are: 1) Ohio, 2) Florida, 3) Iowa, 4) New Mexico, and two on the outside 5) Missouri, and 6)Colorado.

If we win just the first two, Ohio and FLorida, and we win all others Kerry and Gore won, we win the presidency.

If we were to pick up states 3 through 6, and we still lost Ohio and Florida, we would still win the presidency.

So the goal for the Democratic nominee is to appeal to voters in those 6 states, and frankly, NOTHING about Hillary Clinton provides any indication that she would appeal to those voters. In fact, the cons listed against her are part of the reason she DOES NOT appeal to those voters. I am not trying to make a "the-heartland-is-full-of genuine-americans-who-see-through-fake-politicians-BS" argument. It is just that things like looking unnatural eating barbeque matters to people out here in the middle.

You also might be saying, "but what about the other blue states?" Yeah, what about them? If the Democratic party cannot generate the votes it needs to win in the "blue" states without nominating someone from there, then we are a longer way away from majority than I thought.