Posted on 12/13/2015 4:19:27 PM PST by springwater13
You should have seen some of the pathetic “personal” tailored e-mails I got from the Cruz campaign. They didn’t give me much IQ credit. That’s part of the reason I stopped supporting him along with Trump.
It’s far more than merely signing up for campaign news. Cruz’s people are using Mturk for crowdsourcing. The Mturk people are searching through people’s profiles to create a detailed database. It’s all legal, yes. But it should give most people a lot to consider.
Cruz has shown that his decision to not run a ‘negative’ campaign is a tactic, not a principle. He does his maneuvering behind the scenes while playing the “I’m above politics” act in public.
You’re right; I get the same ads for any product I’ve even looked at. But we know about and expect this, even though it’s creepy.
I don’t like this at all. Just how would Cruz offer an opt-in? He’d have to be in some kind of contact with the person first to do that. And no, I wouldn’t trust him more than anyone else to mine my personal information for his campaign.
I’ve been an obvious Cruz and Trump supporter in Facebook for months, and I even “follow” Trump there, but who do you think got my email address for my busy political-friends box? Neither of them, not once. Instead I get bombed by Carson, in whom I’ve never expressed any interest online because I have none. That would lead me to believe the Carson campaign does this, if it had anything to find. (I don’t mind much; it’s fun to mark all the Carson bombs as Spam.)
But do we really believe this, from WaPo?
Total garbage story.
Cruz has moved up because Carson imploded. He’s stayed away from Trump. He’s the ‘insider outsider’ - fought the establishment while in the Senate. He’s been drafting off of Trump. Trump takes the heat and looks extreme. Cruz looks moderate.
Cruz has benefited the most from Trump’s candidacy.
The data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica has reps embedded in the campaign who pinpoint voters based on psychographic qualities — a mishmash of one’s personal traits, attitudes, values, opinions, and general lifestyle — to determine how open someone might be to supporting Cruz. Then, it apparently uses the same process to determine which messages would be most likely to earn that person’s support. harnesses over a hundred different categories of publicly available information — (age, historical party affiliation, social media and magazine subscriptions — for each registered voter. Potential supporters have no idea they are being targeted so specifically so ‘opt-in’ must be a very general term for voters expressing interest in the candidate.
“Cruz has shown that his decision to not run a ‘negative’ campaign is a tactic, not a principle. He does his maneuvering behind the scenes while playing the “I’m above politics†act in public.”
Excellent point.
I think they live on Crimson Peak.
“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.”
I love your description of Trump’s style! I supported both Cruz and Trump for awhile and got correspondence and e-mail from both. Trump’s are gung ho, pep rally, encouraging. Cruz’ reminded me of the ads from a cut rate catalog. One of my pet peeves is advertising that tries to get all cozy and personal. I finally removed my name from Cruz’ list.
Now it’s Trump all the way for me. I’ve refused to buy a lot of products simply because the advertising was clearly manipulative and assumed that I’m a stupid herd member. I think Cruz’ campaign tactics fit that description so I’m not buying.
So modernity and intelligence are now disqualifying?
Ted Cruz needs to do whatever he has to do to win!
It was creepy then too. Its part of the manipulative phoniness voters are sick of, or at least I am.
Sadly, it does seem to work though
Thank you very much Fairlie!
I believe we understand each other. I love your FR home page and think that you capture the feelings of all of us, on it.
TRUMP, for me, represents a return to the traditional American man, who carries confidence in what he believes, which is basically believing, first of all, in simple common sense.
No frills. If it sells, GREAT. If not, let’s move on where it will.
Common sense has been treated like a foreign concept, and these creepy people in our government want foreign concepts to displace our old fashioned common sense.
It has to stop.
Cruz can not beat Hillary, and he is about to be subjected to the same treatment given to Trump. He is getting some exposure, for displaying a craftiness and manipulation of some actions and events of his that we never knew about at the time. We couldn’t possibly put the pieces together, when it was occurring in the dark.
Check out, “TRUMP TO CRUZ: NOBODY LIKES YOU”, posted on FR.
The source is *sundance, who writes a blog at theconservativetreehouse. His blog is called The Last Refuge.
It is quite a jolt. I hardly can believe it.
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