Targeting (Politics) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Targeting in politics is widely used in determining the resources of time, money, and manpower to be deployed in political campaigns. Political parties, campaign committees and political action committees prefer to place their resources disproportionately in constituencies where victory is possible, but not assured. A given constituency may be targeted for one purpose, but not for another. In the USA, inner city neighborhoods, with heavy Democratic populations, may not be targeted for legislative seats because the districts are safely Democratic, but will be targeted for Presidential elections to offset strong Republican areas elsewhere.