It’s interesting on how we on FR often deride liberals as stupid. But if you read the full story on Baraq’s campaign in yesterday’s WSJ, they were in another league as far as information technology and GOTV.
And if they also did it by cheating, it’s pathetic “our” Republican governors and SoS in the swing states didn’t do anything to stop it.
And I recall that Rove, despite his many flaws, built a very good GOTV machine for the 2004 election. And the GOP has backslid since. The tales coming out about ORCA should be in college textbooks so students can study how NOT to create and roll out a system. I think just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong. When you only have one day to have it right.
That’s right, they tapped into the young generations mind set and capabilities and in a sense Googleized the voting mechanism beyond the GOPs wildest dreams. Meanwhile, the old analog farts Rove, Orielly, Boehner, etc..... are using freaking white borads and stats from a data pool that the Dems were not even interested in! It was “The Sting 3” all over again. They didn’t see it coming. They were doing this even before 2008 election.
It does help when top engineers from Google and Facebook are given leave to help with this stuff.
So ... where is our ... never mind. Anyone want to help code this sucker up? We can rent it to the GOP and even if it runs on punched cards it will be better than what currently exists....