Having a 1 or 2 point advantage means very little when polls have a 3–5 point margin of error, and when comparing two candidates, the MOE is double because you could be underestimating one and overestimating the other. On average they are nearly identical in the poll you link to

It’s not bad faith to talk about these things. It is bad faith to pretend like Sanders is disqualified based on empirically shaky evidence, which you have done throughout.

Hillary was the “most electable” last time around and Trump was the candidate she wanted to run against. She lost.