• Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    2 months ago

    I’m worried cause I see the Democrats doing the “smart” thing of finding the exact counties they need to win. And aggressively pushing and trying to play to them alone.

    And that doesn’t seem like a smart strategy. In fact it feels like Hillary or Disney’s failings where playing it safe and doing “smart” math doesn’t work to do something productive and barely scrapes them by.
    I don’t see this being a landslide. And I’m worried their math will mean nothing in the real world.

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        2 months ago

        It’s kinda like how prevent defense in football sometimes (or perhaps even often) prevents teams from winning.

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        2 months ago

        Playing aggressive versus conservative is how you shepherd limited resources.

        Do you stretch for extra seats in the House/Senate by spreading your money/people thin? Or do you concentrate your effort in highly contested battlegrounds to boost your odds locally, while sacrificing possibly winnable races elsewhere?

        There’s arguments for all sorts of strategies, but a lot of it comes down to where the gettable extra votes are. Some races come down to strategy. Otherwise simply aren’t changeable at that stage of the fight.