I think it tells you something if Hillary with her +10 favorability is leading Bush with his -11 one by only 4 points.
Hillary is a really flawed candidate.
Hillary is not really flawed.
She is just no Obama. Who was by far the greatest presidential candidate of any party since Bobby & John Kennedy.
Was Obama a better candidate than Reagan? I don't think so. Obama fared pretty poorly among working class whites. Compared to other Democrats, Obama overperformed in the big cities and underperformed in the small towns.
I actually think he was about on par with Reagan. The only reason Reagan fared so much better than Obama electorally is because the country was far less polarized in 1980 than in 2008. And he wasn't black. But mostly the first one.