Bacon King
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Political Matrix E: -7.63, S: -9.49
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« on: October 20, 2014, 07:22:59 PM » |
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My understanding is that campaign internals can tailor their questions to determine specifically if their own strategy goals are being met - e.g.: does Big Budget Attack Ad sufficiently sway Target Group A to support the candidate? Is Target Group B motivated enough about voting that the campaign's GOTV effort will be effective? Is the ground game in Region A swaying the votes it needs to?
I think a triage happens when the results of such questions demonstrate that the campaign's overall path to victory is essentially untenable. Especially when it's late enough that they don't have the time/resources/etc to reformulate a brand new game plan from scratch.
So yeah I think there's a lot more to it than "my poll is super accurate and we are down three points oh no abandon ship everyone!!"
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