Democrats debate the size of a Clinton victory
A confident party is divided between those who just want to make sure to win, and those who are pushing for a landslide.
By Edward-Isaac Dovere
08/22/16 05:00 AM EDT
Democrats are starting to fight about what they want Hillary Clinton’s win to look like: Play it safe and focus on beating Donald Trump in the states that will decide the election, or try to run up the score and clobber him?
For strategists preparing for the final phase of the campaign, this is a question of how to allocate money, staff, attention and operations. But it’s really a question of confidence and appetite for risk. Democrats looking at good polls now are torn between being nervous they’ll regret going big and nervous that they’ll regret not going big.
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