Perhaps Mills wasn't such a bad candidate after all.
Atlas assumes anyone with a vagina is a bad candidate.
Seriously, notice whenever Atlas is bashing someone's "candidate quality", it is almost always a woman. The only exceptions are for over the top offensively bad male candidates like Roy Moore, Bob Menendez, etc.
Ex: Jacky Rosen is a bad candidate because she has a bad haircut and is uninspiring. Donna Shalala is a bad candidate because she doesn't speak Spanish. Randy Bryce is a great candidate despite his multiple arrests, multiple DUIs, delinquent child support payments, etc. because he's a #populist 
white man.
Given that the average female candidate under-performs the average male candidate by 1-2 points, it's not an inherently wrong position in general terms. Just imagine how different things might have been with Howard Clinton winning the PV by 3-4 points.
