It gets so irritating listening to these guys on FR constantly carp about NOT trying to go for a blue state!
And their incessant bitching about “dead voters” as a reason to not even bother!
Like where the hell are you supposed to take it to these people?
Leave up to some of these jokers, and Trump will be spending money in Alabama, Mississippi, Indiana, and S. Carolina because every other damn state is some elaborately laid “trap”.
The absolute worst thing that ever happened to Presidential election politics is KARL ROVE and his idiotic model of just concede most of the map, try not to offend anyone and then just try to win a GOTV effort in a handful of states....
To his credit this did win the White House in 2000 and 2004... However, it just BARELY managed it! And that’s a failed model, its not maintainable.. you have to expand your party and you do that by offense. The Republican Party hasn’t played OFFENSE in nearly 3 decades. It has only managed to win the popular vote 1 time in the past nearly 28 years, and even then it was only by 2.5% or so for a sitting wartime president! That’s insane! It’s inexcusable and its because reality is, both parties are little more than puppets to a few money men who make them dance for them.
Trump is the first president in a long time that truly is going to play in places that no Republican has in 30 years... and its not because of anything more than he’s a strong leader, and folks believe him when he says I will put america first... period. That simple.
The “blue” states have been largely blue because of a few reasons, number one is Karl Rove’s model... which just concedes the map... number 2 Republicans haven’t put up a good candidate who can play well to blue collar voters in ages, particularly in the rust belt and north east, and number 3 because honestly, they aren’t willing to take the fight to them.
Trump is a winner, he’s not going to be afraid to fight, and he should be, he should be fighting for every state... how is California ever going to change if no one is even willing to fight for it? How can you expect your party to grow, and get stronger if everyone knows day one no one cares???? Take it to em Donald... I fully expect Trump to take states no one, no one in the punditry is willing to consider, and even if he doesn’t take them outright, he will make inroads that will cause Democrats to spend money places they never thought they would need to, opening opportunities elsewhere.
You shrink the battlefield when you have limited resources or ability to fight.... its long past time we had an honest true 50 state election where NOTHING was just conceded before it began