Liberal Stealth Groups Paved Obama Win

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/11/29/liberal-stealth-groups-paved-obama-win/ ^ | 11-29-2012 | Ernest Istook

[sheikdetailfeather]

More than 4 million people who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 did not vote this year. But by applying new voter science, Obama nudged enough replacements in key states — many who were rare or first-time voters — to give him his margin of victory (leveraged even larger by the Electoral College).

Years of stealthy multimillion-dollar efforts paid off forAmerica’s left in the 2008 and 2012 victories by President Barack Obama. Using new voter science to get rare and first-time voters to go to the polls, the races have changedAmerica’s electorate — those who make the country’s decisions by showing up and voting.

Aided by $5 million minimum from George Soros, plus millions more from others, at least two secretive institutions were created to enable this effort by focused research on behavioral science. Their results are made available only to liberals and their causes.

Those are findings from writer Sasha Issenberg. In an interview with me on my “Istook Live!” radio program, Issenberg put a special spotlight on the Analyst Institute (AI), which he has called “a firm quietly founded in 2007 by AFL-CIO officials and liberal allies.”

The AI has been quietly stacked with behavioral scientists, mostly PhDs or PhD candidates from Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Yale,Princeton, andDartmouth(with Notre Dame andUniversityofChicagothrown in for good measure). They coordinate with market researchers for various commercial products. AI materials brag that the Institute supports “a community of 400 data analysts and related professionals in collaborating and sharing their findings through monthly Analyst Group meetings and retreats.”

Issenberg’s book The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns details more history, as do his articles written for Salon.com.

[griswold3]

Sing it loud!
(and I come here because of the Reality Check??)

[blueunicorn6]

We keep being lazy. We want an easy way to win elections, “This new software will allow us to know who hasn’t voted!” The
Democrats bought smart with their money. We bought Prebus. Who won?

[blueunicorn6]

We can beat this behavioral science brain trust. I already see one weakness.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Why would you think that politicians who give their lives, their time, their energy, and their money to get elected would “lay down” in the face of provable obvious voter fraud?

Isn’t it a much more likely hypothesis that the stories are exagerated?

Yes, vans and buses full of voters that were driven to Wisconsin, you would track them.

And btw, Obama won Wisconsin by 200,000 votes. If you did that by busing people from Chicago, it would take 7,000 round-trip bus trips of 30 people per bus.

So, how do all these people “know” that there were busloads of chicago people? We have anecdotes, mostly from people who say they saw it, but don’t own camera phones apparently.

[CharlesWayneCT]

BTW, it’s not like nobody had made this charge before. Chris Plante was screaming about this same possibility back on June 4th, when they were having the special election.

So, if we “knew” there were busloads coming in June, why wouldn’t you prepare to track it. Can you believe the political coup it would be to actually have a film of a bus picking up people in Illinois, driving to Wisconsin, doing same-day registration, and voting, under the watchful eye of democratic officials?

It would be the easiest way to get Wisconsin voters to push for serious election reform.

And given that, why do we think nobody actually DID this? Again, you can either believe that the entire political class of conservatives in Wisconsin is too ignorant to think of this, or you could believe that the anecdotes are overblown and there wasn’t a stream of buses coming in over the border.

I wish we had evidence of massive fraud. THere is fraud, and it is widespread, and we need serious laws to stop it, but we need to prove it is happening to get people excited enough to take action.