Posted on 12/13/2015 4:19:27 PM PST by springwater13
Cruz has largely built his program out of his Houston headquarters, where a team of statisticians and behavioral psychologists who subscribe to the burgeoning practice of “psychographic targeting†built their own version of a Myers-Briggs personality test. The test data is supplemented by recent issue surveys, and together they are used to categorize supporters, who then receive specially tailored messages, phone calls and visits. Micro-targeting of voters has been around for well over a decade, but the Cruz operation has deepened the intensity of the effort and the use of psychological data.
Cruz, a critic of excessive government data collection, has been notably aggressive about gathering personal information for his campaign. Some of the data comes from typical sources, such as voters’ consumer habits and Facebook posts. Some is homegrown, such as a new smartphone app that keeps supporters in touch while giving the campaign the ability to scrape their phones for additional contacts.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
He opposes data collection unless it helps him get elected.
I wouldn’t care to see the psychological profile of his more rabid aggressive supporters! :)
But seriesly, I’m sure Cruz offers an opt-in for gathering such info, and most of his fans would trust him enough to share it with his campaign.
In other words, this is a yet another cheap shot by the wapo against someone on our side.
I thought Cruz depended on boldly stating his consistent conservative principles, not psychological ploys. I thought it was Trump who was saying what people wanted to hear.
Obama did the same.
So they cater their propaganda based on the listener. Sounds about right for a man who used to support increased immigration, legal status for illegal aliens, and a 500% increase in American worker-replacing H1-B visas....but now suddenly DOESN’T. Are conservatives “personality profiles” being manipulated as well?
This smells really cool. Psyche. How prissy.
Guess this “smart” stuff was bound to show up in politics, as well as in selling Cheetos and gas pills.
It lends more credence to the TRUMP approach, to just hang it on ‘em and we can catch it just fine. Give ‘em what you’ve got and if they’re too stupid to see it, roll over ‘em and move on.
So he can literally tell every voter exactly what they want to hear.
They would probably turn out a lot better than those of the folks keening ecstatically about the "Trump of God" and writing hymns to Donald in all caps.
This was at the heart of obamas 2008 campaign. We had better master and use these techniques.
Too fragile. Wait for the first week of January and then flood Iowa with negative ads. Trump’s Twitter will miss the target, as he has no team for that.
First term senator syndrome.
Washington Compost, folks.
This is an anti-Cruz trolling piece, and with uncanny reliability the Trumpettes hit the lure.
Pitiful.
The psychological data and analytics that I’ve collected here seem to indicate that Trump supporters like to whine. A lot.
Ted Cruz Surge Built on Policy, Old Fashioned Campaigning
Breitbart ^ | 12/13/15 | Mike Flynn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3372198/posts
If you have a Facebook page and support Cruz on it, you will likely get a message from his campaign. You put that info. out there for the world to see.
Your information on the internet is not secret because you put it on there. Now, if you buy a product on line, any product, you will find pop-ups about that and other similar products every time you are on line. Now, that is invading my privacy but those are going to happen. I bought new collar for my Yorkie on line, and now I see ads for dog collars every time I get on line.
Just as long as they write the hymns to the melody of We're Not Going to Take It, I think the headshrinkers will conclude they'll be okay.
That’s rich. The honest conservative is telling people what they want to hear and collecting information on them.
Got that wrong. Trump says what he thinks :) Apparently Cruz is the one who is saying what he thinks you want to hear.
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