I wholeheartedly agree on this - it was very much a matter of perception. What I was saying in a very long-winded way was that if you ignored all the personality factors and just scored candidates on the policy agenda, the Clinton one was both good (in terms of being thought out in detail) and popular with voters.

Like, the exact same set of policies would have won handily if they had just been offered by somebody else. Martha Stewart for example XD