Now he's created Battleground Texas to, in his words, turn Texas into a swing state by treating it like a swing state.
To insist upon such unrealistic standards is to create a battleground pre-configured for failure.
Set the elements up to create a battleground.
Jack Fleming PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 (£19.99) After unwittingly creating a battleground between the game's developer and Destiny's seasoned guardians with the ill-judged changes in its last expansion – The Dark Below – House of Wolves feels like a cautious olive branch from makers Bungie to its downtrodden fans.
But California's growing diversity is creating new battlegrounds.
JEFF ZELENY wonders if Barack Obama, who sat for an interview with a Dallas news station yesterday, has electoral ambitions in Texas:President Obama's political advisers often talk about how population shifts in the country could create new electoral battlegrounds, pointing specifically to Arizona, Georgia and Texas.
The long-term way is to create a new intellectual battleground, which you can't do if you start out by saying 'No, no, no, no, no.' But if you say, 'O.K., let's talk about, for example, how you best have conservation in America, do you think trial lawyers, regulators, bureaucrats, and higher taxes are the answer, then you ought to be with Al Gore.
It would take a consistent overstatement of Obama's margins -- just 2 to 3 points -- in the battlegrounds to create a scenario in which Romney wins despite the current polling numbers.
"We have created our own battleground, our own battle spaces, our own field program, our own message," Israel said.
And it's television, Miller told me, that will become the key "battleground" in the war to successfully create models for distributing digital content.
