Copyright (c) 2009 Dave Smart
During Obama’s campaign while he was competing with Hillary Clinton there were those Republicans who, in each state campaign, calculated which candidate would be slightly ahead, and then voted for the other in an attempt to keep the opponents as closely balanced as possible. Their goal was, of course, to ‘bleed dry’ the Democrats.
This is of course an old strategy, and examples of it ec » Read more: Competing to Win or Taking an Opportunity?