Putting many smaller states in play for the GE is better than just a couple big ones

[thesubstanceofdreams]

There is much talk of how Obama would put many red but smaller states in play, while Clinton could do better in some bigger battlegrounds, notably FL (although many claim that Hillary would do better than Obama in OH and PA, this remains to be seen). But this is an issue of putting all eggs in one basket or in many baskets. Assuming that Hillary could take FL from the repugs but could take no new small states from them, the election will hinge on just one state and that's very dangerous (and especially dangerous if that state is FL or OH, as the last elections attest). But if your strategy is being competitive in many smaller red states (and if you believe the polls, Obama is surprisingly strong in many of them), then you have a lot more winning combinations, and you can even afford to lose a purple state or two.

So all this talk about the importance of winning the big states I think is wrong, and it is in fact exactly the other way around.

[C_U_L8R]

1. There's no correlation between winning primary and GE states.

it's another false argument from the Clintons. No surprise there.

[thunder rising]

2. The Dems lost the government on Clintons (DLC) 50%+1 campaign with no coat tails

You have to campaign in every state or else your down ticket candidates take a beating.

And Obama has coat tails and ALL the superdelegates know it.

[jody]

3. So 21 electoral votes from MT, DE, SD, AK, ND, VT, WY are more important than Florida with its 27

electoral votes and Michigan with its 17 votes.
:rofl:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population

Have FAITH and chant “HOPE, CHANGE, . .. HOPE, CHANGE”, you will be invested with supernatural powers that will allow you to defeat all the demons in your fantasy.

[Pab Sungenis]

6. We will never win Florida

No matter what the Survey USA Hillary map shows. The Republican machine down there, both figuratively and literally, will never allow Florida to go blue again.

[joshcryer]

7. They's basically what they've been parroting here.

It's amazing.

[emilyg]

4. Strange logic you got there.

[Pab Sungenis]

5. That's how the Republicans keep winning

Tons of small states, each with a small number of electoral votes.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. you understadn that winning primary states has nothing to do with winning the GE

for instance mccain won in newyork, do you think new york is going to go RED for the general election?