Which Congressional/Senate Election Strategy is Better?

[Nathan Hale]

1. Support as many candidates as possible. This is the "quantity over quality" approach. Get as many candidates as we can get to file for office even if the movement doesn't have the resources to make all of them viable and hope that throwing more candidates at the wall will lead to more candidates sticking.

2. Support a few targeted races. This is the "quality over quantity" approach. Run a select group of qualified candidates in races that they reasonably stand a chance of winning. The number of candidates would be determined by a reasonable assessment of this movement's resources.

3. Support a single candidate. This is the fallback approach. As breakthrough campaigns are hard endeavors, target a single campaign with the entirety of our resources and get another liberty-lover into Congress (or perhaps Senate).

[TastyWheat]

The way our two-party system is built you'd have to put all of your effort behind one candidate. A majority usually isn't required to win an election so adding more candidates will just dilute the vote.

[TonySutton]

If you are talking federal House and Senate seats, I would say we want as many who are able to take a shot in the Primaries in an attempt to get the message out. After the Primaries we should focus resources on those who have a reasonable shot at getting elected.

At the same time I would encourage anyone who is willing to take a look at state and local offices where they feel they can make a difference. These will be some of the people we look for in 2012.

[acptulsa]

Run for as many offices as possible from president to dog catcher. But don't ever run more than one per office. And never run against an incumbent who's doing a good job by our standards.

[AJ Antimony]

Running as many candidates as possible is great, but they have to assume they will be getting 0 money from us online. We just don't have enough supporters and money to donate $500,000 to every congressional candidate.

[Kludge]

As many candidates whose standard-sized banners can fit in the RPFs advertising space :p