old timey villain
cope1989
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« on: June 25, 2013, 01:51:35 PM » |
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The Kerry campaign was more concerned with holding down the midwest, which proved to be a very tough fight, as well as 2000 battlegrounds like Iowa, NH and New Mexico. And then of course there was Florida. In 2004 Bush definitely had the advantage and Kerry was just trying to hold on to the states he knew he had could win. The conventional wisdom at the time was that VA was trending towards the Democrats but wasn't worth it that year. It had been Republican for almost 20 years at that point. So the way I see it, if Kerry had decided to contest VA, he would have had less time and money for states like Wisconsin and New Hampshire and might have lost them in the end, while still losing Virginia.
Obama had the Kerry states locked down early in the campaign so he had time and money to invest in Virginia but Kerry didn't have that luxury.
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