How did Barack Obama interpret John Kerry’s narrow Electoral College loss as a way to develop a strategy using battleground states to assure victory in 2008?

a.
The campaign focused on three battleground states that Bush had won comfortably while holding
onto the states Kerry won.
b.
They were on the defensive to hold onto the states Kerry won.
c.
The campaign ignored states that Kerry lost and focused on sure wins to save resources.
d.
The Obama campaign mirrored the McCain campaign, but Obama’s resources dwarfed McCain’s
efforts, so that it was hard to notice McCain’s advertising.

ANS: A

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