Posted on 11/29/2012 9:02:05 AM PST by sheikdetailfeather
More than 4 million people who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 did not vote this year. But by applying new voter science, Obama nudged enough replacements in key states — many who were rare or first-time voters — to give him his margin of victory (leveraged even larger by the Electoral College).
Years of stealthy multimillion-dollar efforts paid off forAmerica’s left in the 2008 and 2012 victories by President Barack Obama. Using new voter science to get rare and first-time voters to go to the polls, the races have changedAmerica’s electorate — those who make the country’s decisions by showing up and voting.
Aided by $5 million minimum from George Soros, plus millions more from others, at least two secretive institutions were created to enable this effort by focused research on behavioral science. Their results are made available only to liberals and their causes.
Those are findings from writer Sasha Issenberg. In an interview with me on my “Istook Live!” radio program, Issenberg put a special spotlight on the Analyst Institute (AI), which he has called “a firm quietly founded in 2007 by AFL-CIO officials and liberal allies.”
The AI has been quietly stacked with behavioral scientists, mostly PhDs or PhD candidates from Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Yale,Princeton, andDartmouth(with Notre Dame andUniversityofChicagothrown in for good measure). They coordinate with market researchers for various commercial products. AI materials brag that the Institute supports “a community of 400 data analysts and related professionals in collaborating and sharing their findings through monthly Analyst Group meetings and retreats.”
Issenberg’s book The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns details more history, as do his articles written for Salon.com.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.heritage.org ...
“Except for the fact they committed voter fraud,...”
There is voter fraud and there is election fraud. The first is perpetrated by individuals whose votes counted when they were not eligible to vote and the second is perpetrated by the concerted efforts of groups of individuals belonging to organizations whose agendas include the enabling voter fraud.
Members of such organizations may indeed be eligible to vote but it’s their concerted efforts to enable voter fraud to be perpetrated by ineligible individuals.
All of the above were major factors, if not THE deciding factor in the outcome of Election 2012.
They got him. Let them enjoy him.
Turnout of conservatives is the key. The left can’t cheat enough to overturn a mandate like Reagan got. They can’t win if it’s not close. This may be moot, considering there is a good chance we will never find another candidate with Reagan’s chops.
I see the same thing at the university I teach at. I teach advanced system administration and network engineering.
One thing I stress is how important it is to make all your purchases and efforts focused on achieving business goals. That right off the bat puzzles them. What are business goals?
I stress that anything that generates a profit for that business, and how important that is. The just don’t see it. I actually have GRADUATE students who thought a business could perform underwater for a time. He was certain a company (his words) he worked for had loses and didn’t go under, so that is just ok. Here this guy (a middle aged man) is arguing this with me in class!
I asked him how that business managed to pay the bills. He said he didn’t know. Finally I asked him what the businesses name was. His words:
“Ah, the State of Alabama.” Me: “What?! That’s not a business!” “But people work for them,” he replied. Me: So what’s their product, and where’s their sales?”
Confused, deer in headlight stare.....
All you said is very wise and I have been seeing variations of it here and there but you said it all here.
The other new development that has shaken me is the effect of anonymous posting on the internet on academic freedom.
Those of us who managed, by a hair’s breadth, to get tenure, were protected by it. But (Be)Rate My Professor is having an effect.
I am responsible for course scheduling and that means guessing at how many sections to offer to avoid too many (having to cancel some) or too few. So I monitor the registration process. For the first time, this fall I have noticed that the two or three professors whose classes are the last to fill up are the ones who are more traditional, including myself. It also has to do with personality—we tend to be more reserved, less mothering and more fathering (expecting students to think and be self-starters).
Students are now taking (Be)Rate My Professor seriously, as gospel truth. I had one student this fall, after I mentioned to her that I thought some students were actually believing what’s posted there as anonymous gossip, agree with me that students took it seriously and then ask me, “Is it true that you are a biased grader”? She in effect (naively) admitted not only that she read it but that she based her decision on what classes to take on those ratings.
She was in my class against her will, came into it thinking her professor was an unjust tyrant who graded with bias.
Eventually, as my classes fill more and more poorly the administration will bring this up as a failing on my part. I have not doubt that they will give credence to anonymous gossip. The student is the consumer, we are expected to keep the students happy. If not, we are not team players.
With that mindset among students and administrators, most faculty will cave and do what it takes to keep the students happy and posting rave reviews on gossip sites.
So the problem will get worser and worser. I’m 7 years away from retirement and I’ll be able to coast through it, though it may cost me financially in terms of “merit’ raises (which are at best cost of living raises).
But the younger faculty are defenseless against this. Take a bunch of mind-numbed students who really, truly think Obama is another great FDR-like savior—never mind that I tell them to read Schlaes and that FDR actually made things worse—they just won’t/can’t hear what I say), take students like that and throw a teacher who dares to think differently into the classroom and the messenger becomes the villain. How dare he offer a different viewpoint.
Admittedly there are precious few younger faculty who aren’t themselves mind-numbed. But those few are going to have a hard time surviving.
Yeah, y’all can write off the academy as crap anyway. THat’s a typical FR mind-numbed response.
But now that “everyone” is going to college, this is one of the places where the mindnumbing is going on. Ignore it at your peril.
The internet has changed the equation. What used to be reserved for student-to-student scuttlebut (Professor X is a jerk, be sure you take Professor Y’s class, it’s the best) is now public for the whole world to read. It would not be a problem if the pool of those doing the rating was well distributed across the spectrum, but it’s mindnumbingly liberal.
The student was in my class against her will because she had to take general education requirements and no other sections were available by the time she registered.
Man, that is scary.
the pubs may think they can get away with laying down about this stuff, but they better think twice....we want a party fully engaged...
remember...all you Romney haters and pro bammey freepers really don’t have a right to comment anymore....you were part of the PROBLEM not the solution so your belly aching is a little absurb now, after you got what you wanted.....
This is what I suspected. Covert operations in mind control, more or less. Is this how they convinced people the bad economy is still Bush’s fault? I think that was key.
Mitt Romney’s loss had nothing to do with conservatives, regardless of your personal desire to keep promoting that false message in hopes of concealing the absurdity of having a radical Reagan hating, romneycare, gay marriage, pro-abortion Massachusetts Governor with a single, shortlived election victory in his life, running against a democrat, and thinking that is the answer to anything.
As this thread shows, he just couldn’t win people over.
Sorry lefties, you got your dream liberal, the most hard left candidate in GOP history, running against Jimmy Carter’s second term and losing.
Your Rockefeller wing of the GOP is disgraced and exposed, you were absolutely wrong in trying to make the GOP another democrat party.
You have no voice, you lie naked and exposed, in humiliation and shame (well shame, if rinos/liberals were capable of such a thing).
I can’t believe in our state, with Scott Walker as Gov., that this stuff that went on in Sheboygan (Repub poll watchers did call for help, and when it showed up the dem machine stopped more van loads of Bears fans from coming).... this has NOT been in the news even here in WI! The Gov says nothing about it.
There were poll WORKERS in Delavan, WI telling voters to “go ahead and vote again, no one will say anything.”
This was reported on conservative radio at 3pm election day. Authorities ( dems of course) are notified and nothing is done.
In Milwaukee, it was reported on radio that gov’t owned vans were picking up black voters and taking them to the polls, a federal violation of law to use gov’t property to promote voting (and they knew they were 100 percent dem votes). Again no consequences. It happened. Too bad. Sucks to not be a dem.(sarcasm)
Reince Priebus was interviewed on Milwaukee radio Wednesday. Not a word about vote fraud. Just hand wringing about what “we” need to do to get more votes.
It’s fraud that won Hitler this election. Just like his foreign father who makes him ineligible to hold office, no one will do one damn thing to stop it.
Romney has squatted on top of the GOP primaries for 7 years, spending record amounts, and when needed, injecting up to 50 million dollars of his personal money he only lost to the unfunded Huckabee and McCain because he turns out to be the terrible candidate that he is, at least for his adopted party, which he switched to in October 1993.
Hopefully his negative influence and dominance is over and other major players will be willing to enter.
Interesting observations.
Mass hypnosis? As in successful Madison Ave. branding?
We know that the issue is never about the issue, it’s all about power and control. Once the emotional trigger is set on the subject, is is possible ever discuss reality with these lemmings?
For example, in Ohio, Brown set out an emotional campaign to make Josh Mandel unelectable. They used the word ‘trust’, as in can’t be trusted, so that whenever any issue was brought up, it was dismissed with emotional rants. Mandel’s campaign tried to turn the tables and call out the dishonesty, but used the trigger word, ‘Liar’, (which of course is associated with George W Bush) and it was deemed very harsh and nasty.
Any opposition to a leftist agenda can quickly be thwarted by calling down their minions.
We and Amertica got played.
The dems have weaselled the systems for years to enable easy voter fraud and easier illegal foreign money feeding dem campaigns. Liberal education establishment have trained a majority to think liberal socialism is OK, the government knows best. A liberal media have enabled shady and false advertising and politics to make it impossible for a majority of the voters to know any truth about a non-liberal candidate.
To get honesty and integrity back into American politics, will requie insuring media bias, voter fraud and foreign contributions are not allowed. Anyone care to bet that will happen without the Country splitting up or R2?
Romney was the worst of all worlds, people need to restudy 2008 when some who aren't very insightful would look at Mitt and say that he was a great candidate, he looked right, and had all of the money, etc, but in the end, he couldn't beat a couple of pikers who had nothing going for them and no money or powerful support, all they had was that they were not Mitt Romney, they could look at 2006 when Romney was forced out of office with 34% approval and rejected for reelection. That failed term and the resulting rejection, was the HIGH POINT of his 20 year political career.
Romney was running against himself, Mitt wasn't just running against his slightly off center personality and personal history. As a republican, he was running against his own life-long political agenda before he switched at age 59, purely for this presidential run.
Mitt just was not convincing, and he left millions of votes on the table. Mitt was the Massachusetts liberal who mesmerized the GOPe elites.
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