Posted on 07/21/2013 10:30:21 AM PDT by frithguild
The Obama campaign took, "deep dives into exactly where each demographic and regional group was trending at any given moment." I said all the way back in November that such data, "must have been harvested from far deeper resources than an amalgam of voting lists and donor emails." I also put a little thought to how information incorporated into a map can show how a political message propagates, which is as good as gold for a political campaign. To me, it was obvious that the questions that the IRS required applicants to answer were drafted by a lawyer for the purpose of gathering information for campaign software. The mainstreammedia has been a little late to the party, but there is a glimmer in some corners, where this story is not being spiked, that some others are beginning to think the Obama campaign received government data that was incorporated into its analytic software.
The author of the questions the IRS posed to Tea Party applicants, I am guessing, is William Wilkins. He is one of two presidential appointees at the IRS, a Democrat donor and a lawyer that represented Jeremiah Wright in his fight to hold on to his tax exempt status. It is now being reported that the testimony last Thursday established that, "as early as July 2011,Wilkins's office was involved in the decisions about the unprecedented targeting and unorthodox treatment of Tea Party organizations seeking tax-exempt status." Hogwash. July 2011 was the time for a rear guard action to minimize the damage for events that were in play for a long time. That's my SWAG.
We already know that the IRS routinely leaked private information that damaged conservatives and their causes. To me, believing there was a focused data collection effort and ensuing data dumps to the Obama campaign takes a lot less than a leap of logic. After all, if Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden can download sensitive data without anybody knowing, how difficult could it be for a well placed operative to deliver data to a political campaign? All of the leaks the press has reported until now were published by various front organizations, giving the President plausible deniability. However, I think the Obama campaign, and not a once removed "independent" organization, received illegal data. I can only hope that shoe drops.
So, the IRS was just doing its part to give a positive experience to the public. That's all. Nothing to see here. Move on - there are more important things to distract ... er ... talk about.
An information war is underway. Our side lacks the financial and organizational muscle the Gramsci-inspired left has built up. But one thing we do have on our side is truth.
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All guesses on my part
The Obama campaign took, "deep dives into exactly where each demographic and regional group was trending at any given moment." I said all the way back in November that such data, "must have been harvested from far deeper resources than an amalgam of voting lists and donor emails."
I believe we have the money and organizational tools. We have been handicapped by the IRS, but that should be over. After seeing the huge show of force by the Tea Party in 2009-2010 that resulted in the takeover of the House, I can’t see how all of that is just...gone. What we don’t have are leaders.
meet who???
I am changing my NAME!
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