Posted on 03/12/2013 11:49:47 AM PDT by JerseyanExile
Silicon Valley and the GOP — together at last?
That may seem like a peculiar proposition given all the public soul-searching and dirge-singing since Election Day over the digital failure of Republicans in modern campaigning.
But a blast of cheerful California sunshine may be starting to light the way in the form of an underground gang of young, conservative hackers in the Valley assembling via a communal Google Document to brainstorm about what they can do to save the party from the clutches of tech-phobic leaders.
“There’s this myth that there aren’t any Republicans out here who are willing to drop everything to help the way Democratic hackers have,” said Aaron Ginn, who with Garrett Johnson have dubbed their nascent brain trust the Republican Stealth Mob. “We’re out here, and we want to help.”
Although the Mob exists almost entirely online, Ginn said more than 50 programmers and other techies are ready to help build new tools to modernize the party’s widely panned digital infrastructure. Many of those on the list are secret conservatives at top companies fearful of “coming out” in the über-liberal Bay Area, Ginn said.
Ginn, 24, director of growth for StumbleUpon, and Johnson, 28, co-founder of SendHub, are typical.
Ginn left a Silicon Valley startup for which he was a late co-founder to move to Boston last July. A self-described religious conservative and former head of the College Republicans at Texas Christian University, he was propelled in particular by his outrage over the Supreme Court’s affirmation of Obamacare in June.
Troubles began almost immediately. He learned that the campaign’s online home, MittRomney.com, was built on an archaic architecture that required the entire site to be updated every time most changes were made.
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Looks like ORCA wasn't an isolated technical problem. Romney must have hired cronies to run his systems department.
mccains presidential website was remedial at best.
romney’s left alot to be desired.
too much java junk.
Interesting article on the Romney campaign technical woes here:
McCain in 2000, was considered cutting age on the internet.
“Trippi Praised McCain’s “First Bold Attempt To Harness The Power Of The Internet””
Somewhere Andrew Breitbart is smiling.
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