Posted on 06/11/2012 3:10:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Four years ago Barack Obama’s presidential campaign set an impressive new standard for using social media and technology to harness votes.
But this time round Obama’s campaign have raised the bar even higher and, according to experts, this advantage could make all the difference to securing a second term in office.
According to a report by Politico today, Obama’s campaign know ‘what you read and where you shop, what kind of work you do and who you count as friends. They also know who your mother voted for in the last election.’
Carried out by 150 techies this extensive data mining could give Obama the crucial edge, in what is believed to be a tight race to the White House this November.
Through Facebook, Twitter and other online sources, the campaign is working tirelessly to create a formidable data base collecting specific profiles of potential voters.
Depending on factors, such as age, interests and socio-economic levels, the campaign is able to tailor messages to these potential voters.
'They are way ahead of Romney micro-targeting and it’s a level of precision we haven’t seen before,' Darrell M. West, a leading scholar on technology innovation at the Brookings Institution, told Politico.
Unsurprisingly, the Obama campaign believes the effort and money being poured into gaining a technological advantage will pay off....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
All the data-mining in the world cannot guarantee who someone selects in a voting booth.
If he were an unknown or a candidate with a decent track record, yes. But his negatives are such that all this info is useless in overcoming his core failures.
He would literally have to ‘custom threaten’ exposure of this personal info for every person there’s data on. Otherwise, a pile of info on your shopping habits at Target aren’t going to help overcome the reality of the O admin.
It shows the extent to which he’ll go to know who his friends and enemies are. Combined with the abuse of power he’s shown its not a good thing.
Brack and Facebook. Unfriend him in November.
They can data mine me until their computer freezes and they won’t find a way that would make me vote for Zero.
It is a complete waste of time, but don't tell ZERO.
I once was a techie, but me brain started hurting trying to keep up.
“I’m not a techie at all. Is this important?”
It just boils down to targeted marketing. Poor products will need a good pitch. It also indicates the Democrats do not have the blank checks to write as they did last time. The may even end up trailing the “Massachusetts moderate”* GOP.
*A great example of marketing a poor product right there.
Mike
None of this will help him. He’s toast —
I agree; he’ll end up with data that will identify with 99.9% accuracy why people detest him.
Obama's data mining team, we call it peck'en shit with the chickens, looking for a piece of corn.
Hi Im barak Obama and I am the reason why you are still living at home after you graduated college and there are no jobs avaialble to you, but dont worry I have plenty of food stamps on hand as well as a 99 week unemployment program for those who were lucky enough to have had a job but lost it and oh yeah dont forget SSI, disability, welfare and all the other fine dependent programs I have in place for you. So remember to vote for me. Remember hope and change is coming your way.
I have yet to get an email or snail mail from the Obomba campaign. I guess they’ve already given up on me as a voter.
As a future detainee, however, I’m sure that I’m already on THAT list.
At some point it gets to saturation. Much of what`s out there on YouTube is prefaced by an Obama commercial. Users want the video they`re seeking, not yet another 60 seconds of 0bama.
So, they canspend all the $$$ they want on this, but it`ll come to very little.
Personal privacy??? HA! Is that a joke? Are you really under the impression that personal privacy exists anymore?
You want personal privacy? Never use a credit card, never use a computer, never get a social security card, or a drivers license. Then maybe, MAYBE you’ll have a modicum of personal privacy.
Given the level of harassment that financial supporters of California's anti-gay-marriage proposition were subjected to, this produces a bit of foreboding in me. Visualize mailings to Dem contributors telling them which of their neighbors, co-workers, or employees are "radical right-wing extremists"
Then again, any national campaign of harassment against conservative supporters would likely have intense blow-back, even if not directly tied to the Dems.
Of course they know that my mother voted for Obama. Everybody in the cemetary did!!
In short, the incompetent moron in the oval office has to go because - given more time...he could ruin this great country of ours - forever.
Of course they know that my mother voted for Obama. Everybody in the cemetary did!!
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