Super-PAC Telegraphs Battleground Strategy to Clinton Campaign

The League of Conservation Voters’ super-PAC can not legally share its plans with candidates it wants to help, but Hillary Clinton’s staff will still be able to learn, with a surprising degree of precision, the names of each of the almost 970,000 voters whose doors it plans to knock before the first of its canvassers has even approached a doorstep.

In announcing its plans for an “aggressive $4.2 million persuasion canvass” across three states—Pennsylvania, Nevada and North Carolina—the LCV Victory Fund has taken the unusual step of including in a press release the specific ranges of microtargeting scores that define the voters it will attempt to sway in Clinton’s favor and against Trump. It amounts to a direct and precise signal to Clinton’s campaign, state parties and other super-PACs not to bother duplicating those efforts, or perhaps to layer on specific digital or direct-mail communication targeting those individual voters.