We should all use such cromulent vocabulary Samuel Conner Thanks, ACF, for this background. It reminds me a bit of Lambert’s comment yesterday that the DJT campaign is (in some of its cases) contesting outcomes only in those locations it needs to change in order to change the statewide outcome, rather than a consistent system-wide challenge in the states where those locations are located — you add the detail that the selectivity of the challenge is temporal as well as geographical. They (the Rs — but I don’t imagine for a moment that the Ds think differently in the same circumstances) don’t want to fix the system, they just want to use it in whatever way is most advantageous for the needs of the present moment.