gamesmanship

"It's a bit of gamesmanship," Schmidt said on Saturday evening, before defending his team's record.

Republicans and conservative voters oppose the measure by framing it as partisan gamesmanship orchestrated by Governor Newsom rather than a principled response to out-of-state actions.

“While a truce is likely….both sides are engaging in gamesmanship,” wrote the pair.

But Bruce Springsteen and the raw, stripped-down recordings of his 1982 “Nebraska” album seem earnestly in opposition to such artless gamesmanship.

But others worry about the integrity of electoral outcomes across the nation if political parties in every state resort to naked political gamesmanship to gain control.