09-22-2016, 08:43 AM
(09-22-2016, 05:03 AM)Duchess Wrote:(09-22-2016, 03:05 AM)cannongal Wrote: she should be putting a lot more feet on the ground.
I agree that the ground game is important and from everything I've heard & read she has a pretty good one. I can't be sure of this of course but she may feel your state is already in the bag.
You're right. Clinton has an extensive, experienced, well-funded ground game and voter outreach mechanism and has since early in the campaign (and 2008, really). She's not sacrificing feet on the ground resources for advertising resources -- her campaign is doing both with plenty of funding for each.
Clinton's ground game was a big campaign advantage for her over Trump early on; he had no ground game at all then. But, he was highly effective at reaching voters with frequent and free media appearances and social media. That's where I wish she'd gotten up to speed and jazzed up her campaign strategies; I think it would have been beneficial for her to be seen and heard more by less traditional voters earlier on.
Anyway, Clinton's got about an 85% chance of winning the four NH electorates according to the current polls. I think her campaign was smart to send Sanders as her surrogate to rally voters there. It was also smart to absorb some of Sanders' feet on the ground and staffers there into her local campaigning effort once she won the nomination over Bernie.