Clinton launches final-stage turnout plan - Politico

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The Democrat shifts from courting conservatives to a pure base strategy for the final full month of the 2016 contest.

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — As the last full month of this presidential contest begins, Hillary Clinton is shifting toward a pure base-turnout strategy, inching away from her all-out effort to lure disaffected Republicans in favor of a traditional get-Democrats-to-the-polls effort that mirrors Barack Obama’s 2012 game-plan.

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"The thing about this election is — as unconventional as it is — what’s remarkable is how conventional it is,” said Steve Schale, a Florida Democratic strategist who ran Obama’s state teams. "You go back to 1976, there have been a billion votes cast for president, and there’s less than five million votes separating the Republican and Democratic candidates. Why would this be different?"

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Clinton’s targets almost universally echo Obama’s from four years ago in the individual states where the election will be won and lost.

In Ohio, for example, local organizers who are canvassing and registering party members are explicitly aiming to replicate Obama’s support — which itself looked different in 2008 and 2012 than any previous winning combination there, thanks to its heavier reliance on African American and Latino voters. They are, therefore, shuffling back from the earlier attempt to broaden Clinton’s backing into the right side of the aisle.

“The clearest path to winning a state like Ohio is to re-energize the Obama coalition, which means making sure people are registered — which we’ve been doing for months — and then spending the next 39 days making sure the base that delivered Obama the presidency is energized to show up,” explained Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper. “That is clearly Step One to winning."
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