fifty-state strategy

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fifty-state strategy (plural fifty-state strategies)

(US politics) A political strategy in which a presidential candidate campaigns in all fifty states, rather than only focusing on those which are considered most important.
- 2017 February 19, Vinson Cunningham, “Will Keith Ellison Move the Democrats Left?”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-04-04:
  [Howard] Dean assumed the D.N.C. chairmanship in 2005, pledging a "Fifty State Strategy" to contest elections across the country. This put him at odds with Rahm Emanuel, then the leader of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, who wanted to focus on a few targeted swing seats.