Strategies For Securing Swing Seats
The creation of policy that will benefit a particular seat, at the expense of other taxpayers, is known as pork barreling.
Political parties often face tension between the holders of marginal seats and safe seats. Safe seats tend to be allocated far less discretionary resources—governmental as well as political—from their political party than do marginal seats.
A similar phenomenon happens in United States presidential elections, where the Electoral College system means that candidates must win states rather than votes. Again, resources are concentrated towards the swing states with the smallest majorities.
Read more about this topic: Marginal Seat
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