It is not a “strategy” that is at fault.
It is the system.
What else are you going to do?
Our system is set up to ONLY offer 2 (basically) candidates, period. One must make a choice between just 2. If you do not, you leave it more to the enemy side.
Really, what else are you going to do? Write in someone? If you do you will be the only 1.
There is no other approach as long as this is our system - choose from just 2.
the system the founders created was never designed for 2 parties. In fact they hated the idea of parties.
If the two standard choices are libs, I absolutely will write in. Done it before, will do it again. If the country burns, it isn’t on my neck. I vote conservative. Join me and we win.
If the GOP candidate is a Cruz/Palin type, they get my vote. If they hit 80% actual without abandoning the core platform they get my vote. If not, it’s their problem. Not mine.