If Hillary Clinton runs, which Republican has the best chance of beating her?

[Mr. Morden]

He's the only Republican with charisma, name recognition and appeal to moderates.

Anyone who wins the nomination of either major party for president is inevitably going to have near universal name recognition by election day.

[Mr. Morden]

Christie, easily. He's the only one with any shot at all - against her, at least.

I'm guessing that if you posed a similar hypothetical here in 2005, "What Democrat could beat John McCain in 2008?", you'd get a lot of people saying that McCain had such strong crossover appeal that only a really strong Democrat like Bayh or Warner would have a chance against him....that someone more polarizing, like Hillary Clinton, would have very little chance against him.

Actually, I don't have to wonder about that, because here are Bayh vs. McCain and Warner vs. McCain threads from 2005:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=21881.0

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=31490.5

I voted McCain/McCain, but meant Warner/McCain.  No one could beat McCain in the general election.  The political center loves the guy.  He would set record numbers with moderates and indy's.

McCain/McCain, nobody can beat him if he gets to the general election and he'd probably win Virginia and a couple of other states as well on nomo's map.

Oh, and a Clinton vs. McCain thread from 2005:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=21205.0

And BRTD and Joe Republic thought that Clinton vs. McCain 2008 was a ridiculously implausible matchup:

pointless thread, this matchup is about as likely as opebo converting to Islam.

Agreed.  The sad fact is that I expect as soon as this one falls off the first page, another one with the same two candidates will pop up again.

It came within a few thousand Iowa caucus votes of happening, guys.