Sasha Issenberg wrote about LCV Victory Fund today
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-09-08/super-pac-telegraphs-battleground-strategy-to-clinton-campaign
In announcing its plans for an “aggressive $4.2 million persuasion canvass” across three states—Pennsylvania, Nevada and North Carolina—the LCV Victory Fund has taken the unusual step of including in a press release the specific ranges of microtargeting scores that define the voters it will attempt to sway in Clinton’s favor and against Trump. It amounts to a direct and precise signal to Clinton’s campaign, state parties and other super-PACs not to bother duplicating those efforts, or perhaps to layer on specific digital or direct-mail communication targeting those individual voters.
Thank you for that! This is sort of what I was looking for by creating this thread - trying to see what they planned to do with it.
That said, I'm a little disappointed this is going to Clinton-related efforts. She has a lot of resources/support already, and that money could be better served in downballot races where candidates are in need of their own support. However, given that there is a competitive Senate race in each of those states, along with
some competitive House races, I hope that they are persuading those voters to support the Democratic Senate/House candidates as well.
My experience in higher education development tells me that fulfilling multi-million dollar pledges in the space of a couple months is an overly ambitious goal. The urgency of the election will certainly help, but for such things a timespan of years would not be unusual.
The union pac did say they were setting it up as a long-term operation, so I suppose it could be put to use building up for 2018.
