How Clinton can redraw the map - OpEd by Howard Dean

[BootinUp]

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By Howard Dean

Updated 11:55 PM ET, Sun June 19, 2016

Most presidential campaigns follow the same playbook. Candidates parse the map into red states, blue states and so-called "swing states"—and they focus their time and resources exclusively on that third category.
Hillary Clinton's campaign is rejecting that strategy in favor of a much broader one. The plan that Clinton began to execute this week is a 20-year strategy to create a new vision for America. To fulfill it, she is dispatching staff to all 50 states and is working to identify and organize supporters in each one.

There are a lot of reasons why adopting a 50-state strategy is both the right thing and the smart thing for Clinton to do. For one, voters deserve it. When candidates write off entire states or regions for being too blue or too red, they also write off the people who call those places home.

Instead of retreating behind battle lines drawn by pundits and pollsters, Clinton is aiming to rewrite the electoral map entirely. She recognizes that you can't win if you don't play -- and that, in a year when Donald Trump is on the ticket, anything is possible.

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[grossproffit]

1. Thanks for posting this.

[missingthebigdog]

2. K&R

[beachbum bob]

3. the most effective way to retake our country is a 50 state strategy and we must help

the DNC in making this happening....too many states have had their govt hijacked by the conservatives...time to retake the governorships and legislatures at the state level...no doubt that hillary has the opportunity to win a few redstates and turn others purple.....make the conservatives defend every single seat up for election in their "strongholds"....

[RogueTrooper]

4. `Chance favors the prepared mind`

[L. Coyote]

5. Let's capture a majority in Congress, so we can actually do something, that's a strategy.

55 districts to flip in a Democratic wave election
By joeknapp

[BootinUp]

6. 55? Seems a bit optimistic, but yeah that would rock.

I was hoping to reach 30 which would give us a majority by 1.

[L. Coyote]

7. Like stealing votes, each one counts twice.

Minus one in one column, plus one in the other column.

[TwilightZone]

12. Some of those might be a little too optimistic

A lot of upstate and rural NY are very conservative. Ditto with the interior CA districts. And that yellow chunk of PA. And, as much as I'd like to be rid of Paul Ryan, he's probably safe.

Not that we won't try, of course, but some of those have entrenched GOP candidates that don't have much opposition.

[BootinUp]

8. kick

[Mr Maru]

9. K&R

[Mr Maru]

10. This is such good news.

Thanks for posting!

[mcar]

11. She has the potential to win "Red" states

and bring more Ds into congress with her.