So a political strategy to win in CA and OR should be identical to what a candidate would do in MS or SC?
“So a political strategy to win in CA and OR should be identical to what a candidate would do in MS or SC?”
I don’t understand your point. Conservative candidates go after democrats, moderate candidates do not, which has been demonstrated in spades in the last several years. Where has a moderate won? Mark Kirk in IL. That’s it as far as I know.
I live in MA. Scott Brown ran as a conservative in 2010 and won by 5 points. He ran as a moderate in 2012 and lost by 7. And MA is perfectly equivalent to CA or Oregon.