To: Nachum
FOX News has been showing an investigative documentary about how the Obama campaign employed “data mining” to help them win the 2012 election. Consultants for the campaign were able to obtain data precise enough to predict what TV shows people—of various demographic stripes—in a particular district watched nightly. This enabled the consultants to customize campaign commercials and place them in time slots where they would have maximum effect.
34 posted on
06/06/2013 5:33:06 PM PDT by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
103 posted on
06/06/2013 8:15:38 PM PDT by
Toadman
(To anger a Conservative, tell a lie. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
FOX News has been showing an investigative documentary about how the Obama campaign employed “data mining” to help them win the 2012 election. I guess it wasn’t watched by many people because you are the first Freeper to post anything in a forum on it, besides myself.
Google is evil personified, but it is likely to stay here.
136 posted on
06/06/2013 11:15:23 PM PDT by
itsahoot
(It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
The use of this sort of data in a campaign would give it a tremendous advantage.
177 posted on
06/07/2013 7:15:46 PM PDT by
marktwain
(The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
To: Brad from Tennessee
The more disturbing thing was that they got enough information to send a dozen different campaign e-mail versions out at the same time, tailored to the recipients -based on the information collected with their 80 some cookies they loaded on the computers of site visitors. That’s worse than double-click.
192 posted on
06/08/2013 10:02:01 PM PDT by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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