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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
What I'd like to know is how the complete absence of a traditional ground game will effect Trumps turn out, it's one thing to tell a poll you'll vote Trump but if no one is calling you up to check if you've voted, let you know where your polling station is (I refuse to call it a 'voting place', it's a childish term) offer you a ride etc will Trump actually get the voters who nominally support him?
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Yeah, that's a big question, but it's hard to find any Trump-positive scenario in the ground game. There's a lot of comparison of ground games in places like Ohio, but where it may be more significant is Clinton's expanded-map places. In Georgia, for example, Trump has turned the ground game over to the
state GOP, which doesn't have a lot of cash on hand. By comparison,
Clinton has earmarked more than $10 million in combined advertising GotV for Georgia. I suspect that states like Missouri and Arizona have similar tales. So this is the real advantage in Clinton's expand the map strategy: a good ground game in Ohio and Florida and a few other swing states is no longer enough. The fact that Republicans and Trump rely on seniors, the poor, and rural voters (and less reliant on their traditional suburban core this time around) makes it worse.