Posted on 08/25/2012 12:49:05 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Building upon its fundraising prowess, Mitt Romney's campaign began a secretive data-mining project this summer to sift through Americans' personal information—including their purchasing history and church attendance—to identify new and likely wealthy donors, The Associated Press has learned.
The project employs strategies similar to those the business world uses to influence the way Americans shop and think. Now they're being used to sway presidential elections. The same personal data consumers give away—often unwittingly when they swipe their credit cards or log into Facebook—is now being used by the people who might one day occupy the White House. …
An AP analysis this week determined that Romney's campaign has made impressive inroads into even traditionally Democratic neighborhoods, collecting more than $350,000 this summer around San Francisco in contributions that averaged $400 each. High-dollar donors have been essential to Romney's election effort, unlike Obama, who relies on more contributors giving smaller amounts. Romney and the GOP have out-fundraised Obama's re-election effort for the past three months. …
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Anotherwords, unlike John McCain, Romney and his people live in the 21st Century.
This kind of stuff started with Clinton as far back as 1996, when I got a re-elect Clinton flyer. At the time I was registered with the dark side, but I had an old lapsed membership in one nationwide liberal environmental organization, which is how I imagine I must have gotten on their list since (to use a quaint phrase) I was about as far from being a Clinton supporter at the time as the man on the moon.
In other words, he is doing what the Dems have done for years.
LOL, seriously, their analytic techniques should be open to the opposition?
“Yeah, why not e-mail us at the DNC all your expensive internal polls, GPS maps and focus group results, as well? And send over some pizza, that giggle grass makes you hungry, man.”
I’m not a Romney fan, but good grief this is pathetic.
Notice how they touch on the church membership. LOL I wonder why...
The DNCp stikes again!
Secretive?
They had the same spooky headlines when Obama was doing this in 2008. /s
If the Eh? Pee! is having to attempt to gin up an attack out of this, they’re really desperate over at the propaganda wing of the Dem Party.
Yep and trying to win. Mining money in democrat districts...LOL.
Panic time over at the AP, heh-heh.
“Mining money in democrat districts...LOL.”
And why not? Bill Clinton was a more conservative governor.
Team Obama’s Dashboard tool uses real-time data mining for re-election efforts
“Looks like barf alert to me. Mountain out of molehill here . “
I sure am glad hussein can’t get that infor with a snap of his fingers. He might use it in his campaign./s
Maybe they are just mad that the Democrats didn’t think of it first.
The Democrats don’t have “secret” data mining operations. They get their new voters’ names at Potter’s Field and since it’s hard to read the headstones in the dark they just go out each day - “Why hide, we’re the Democrats; who will stop us?”
TRANSLATION: Those damn uppity Rethuglicans are using our own techniques against us. Their supposed to be making random calls from phone banks and staffing Rethuglican booths at county fairs.
Ah, have to get words like “secretive” in there. As if the strategy and methods of most parties aren’t secretive. Kind of like those “secretive” donations obama got from all over the world.
Well, what do you expect from the “secretive AP?”
Actually I guess they aren’t very “secretive” at all, since they have obama stickers on the foreheads of all their employees.
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