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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If Al Gore had won his home state of Tennessee, he would have been POTUS. [View all]Yavin4
(35,357 posts)27. The Gore and Kerry Campaigns Narrowly Focused on a Few Big Swing States
Unlike the Obama campaign that went after, and got, non-traditional Dem states. That's the big lesson here. Making Ohio and Florida the deciding states is a bad political strategy, and it makes it easier for the Republicans to steal the election.
By putting NC, VA, MO, NV, and AZ all into play, the Obama campaign spreads out the Republican opposition.
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Focusing on a few big swing states is a favorite ploy by inside the beltway political consultants who don't want the campaigns to spend money on going after non-traditional Dem states. They want the campaigns to spend money on their fees.
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If Al Gore had won his home state of Tennessee, he would have been POTUS. [View all]
MyUncle
May 2012
OP
Tennessee voters voted against their own best interests to please their,
yortsed snacilbuper
May 2012
#4
There were problems with African American precincts in Tennessee during the 2000 election
Tony_FLADEM
May 2012
#5
Does not compute, TN is the reason for GW Bush - irregularities aside, TN did this to us.a
MyUncle
May 2012
#7
The whole campaign dropped the ball from January until the week before the election...
Drunken Irishman
May 2012
#9
How do you allow that to happen in a state where your campaign HQ is located?
Daniel537
May 2012
#20
McGovern was "our Goldwater" only in the sense that he lost to an incumbent
Art_from_Ark
May 2012
#38
This was the NRA's doing. They spent a ton of money in Tennessee telling residents Gore would take
stevenleser
May 2012
#35
And if the GOP hadn't blocked minority voters in and cheesed the results in Florida . . . . .
Sarcasticus
May 2012
#39