Could this campaign strategy work?

[AGA]

What if the Democratic nominee devoted all resources to just five states: Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Virginia, and Florida?

This candidate would effectively ignore all other states because this map is still a Democratic win.

Dem: 270
Trump: 268

[AGA]

What if the Democratic nominee devoted all resources to just five states: Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Virginia, and Florida?

This candidate would effectively ignore all other states because this map is still a Democratic win.

Dem: 270
Trump: 268

Why are you including Virginia in that list?  It's a fairly easy win.

Clinton won it by 5 points, which is a good, but not a huge margin, so I don't think that it would be a good idea to completely ignore it. Democrats would still invest a lot more money in the other states that I mentioned than Virginia.

[AGA]

They should just focus on Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Florida. 

Virginia will go Dem and they don't need New Hampshire in particular...

one of NH, CO, NV will likely go Dem.

I guess that you could swap out New Hampshire for Nevada or Colorado. New Hampshire is all that they need in this scenario though, and it is a smaller state, thus requiring less money to invest in.

[Pericles]

Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida.

[RaphaelDLG]

While they shouldn't do HRC's moronic "go for the landslide/spend more money on ads in LA than in Milwaukee" strategy, it would be foolish to spread their time and resources THAT thin.

They should focus the lion's share of their time and $ on those states you mentioned, though, with the exception that Minnesota is a much better target than New Hampshire, one because it is more Democratic and two because it is more EV-rich. 

Florida, Pennsylvania, and Michigan should be ground zero, though, with some time spent in VA to avoid a blue wall situation like in 2016, because it is after all a EV-rich, absolutely critical state even it is trending blue.

[Figueira]

Focusing on a state doesn't guarantee that you'll win it, so I don't think this is a good strategy. Plus, run a bad enough campaign and we could see Oregon, New Mexico, and Delaware falling away.