After the VP debate and the next Potus debate New Jersey, Minnesota, Oregon, & connecticut could be included in this.
Why stop there? Let's go for the big guns: Massachusetts, Minnesota and California!
Well we can dream.
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I live in NJ (southern) and I have not seen one single obama sign on the lawns, and only two in/on cars. I am praying New Jersey flips.
The possibility of a breakthrough ...
Yes, there is a possibility that the election will not be close, that all the swing states will fall to Romney and he will become competitive in some additional states.
Right now, neither Obama nor Romney will do anything about those states. Maybe, send Paul Ryan or Joe Biden in (plus, there are some surrogates who might be deployed).
Even later, even if it starts to look like a landslide, both camps will remain focused on the current set of battlegrounds, maybe abandoning one or two, but that will be it, because to abandon more would be to concede the election.
This means we’re going to have to depend on partisan fighters in the second tier states. Locals. Tea Party members.
Looking at the second tier states, MI, PA and NM are real possibilities. Plus, there are Senate seats in play, or which could be in play. CT is a little more iffy, but it too has a Senate seat in play.
Let’s look again at MO, MT and ND. We’re going to win those states. But, we might not win the Senate seats in them. These are opportunities to “nationalize” the Senate contests. Have Paul Ryan and a Mitt surrogate (Ann or one of the boys) campaign with the Senate candidate. (OK this is a little edgy in MO.)
Spreading the field and poaching: If Obama’s money starts to dry up, we can spread the field, and pick up some of these second tier states, since he (Obama) would not be able to respond. However, I think they have perfected how to get all the money in the world sent to them via (untraceable) temporary credit cards. So, I’m thinking the real reason for Romney to put resources into secondary states is to win seats in the Senate.