While Facebook has tried to address the issues, it hasn't committed to opening an office in the country and it released a key report on the situation on the eve of the U.S. mid-term elections, a strategy that appeared designed to deflect attention from the findings.
Since Election Day, it has continued with the daily patter of attacks on Mr. Obama that it offered throughout the general election campaign, a strategy pushed by the national chairman, Mike Duncan, but one that clearly does not have universal support.
In a general election, such a strategy is a no-hoper.
Trump picked Pence as his running mate in large part to help guarantee his support from religious conservatives in the election — a successful strategy, given that 81percentt of white evangelicals voted for Trump.
A year ago, when word emerged that Republicans in Wisconsin were encouraging less-than-genuine candidates to run in Democratic primary elections as a strategy, some Wisconsin residents voiced shock.
But there is a new force in the Democratic Party, represented by the Bernie Sanders campaign, with a very different strategy for winning elections -- a strategy built on an economic agenda for the people, not the wealthy -- and a fundraising strategy which can give Democrats the freedom to attack the growing problems of inequality, declining wages and economic stagnation.
In 1980, consultants on Ronald Reagan's election team proposed a strategy of "holding down the black turnout" as a means of neutralizing the political impact of black voters.
That might be because in most elections, a simpler strategy is to win over older people, who will vote however bad the candidates are.
The gathering comes as Obama's re-election campaign maps out a general election strategy with an eye toward making further inroads into the South.
… It was a little like David Plouffe might do for an election strategy: those places that make a big difference.
