GEORGE CURTIN

Camas, Wash.

To the Editor:

Critics of Bernie Sanders say that someone with such a progressive agenda could never get the cooperation of a Republican House or Senate. The implication is that we should vote for Hillary Clinton because she could get that cooperation.

But Republicans hate her and have for two decades. Republicans made a pact when President Obama was elected that they would fight him at every turn, and they did, even when he supported their own ideas. The same would happen with Mrs. Clinton, and the same would happen with Mr. Sanders.

We need Mr. Sanders because he has the better ideas and will bring more voters to the polls who will elect the other politicians we need to actually get anything done with any Democratic president.

JOHNNY TOWNSEND

Seattle

To the Editor:

Re “Hillary Stumbles,” by Charles M. Blow (column, Jan. 25):

I am one of those people whose feelings are reflected in the CNN Values vs. Electability poll accompanying Mr. Blow’s column. I fervently agree with Senator Bernie Sanders on almost everything, and I love him for saying it. But I believe that Hillary Clinton is more likely to be elected. Does that soften my support for Mrs. Clinton? No.

If there were any chance that anything that Mr. Sanders advocates could make it through the mire in Washington, I might waver. But I am also certain that, if that chance existed, Mrs. Clinton would advocate it as well. She is as devoted to the cause of the common person as any Democrat. She advocates what is both good for the nation and doable. In the final analysis, that is why I will vote for her.