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Ted Cruz partners with donor’s 'psychographic' firm
The Politico ^ | July 7, 2015 | Kenneth P. Vogel and Tarini Parti

Posted on 07/07/2015 2:03:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Cue spooky music.
1 posted on 07/07/2015 2:03:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Beats the Vulcan Mind Meld...


2 posted on 07/07/2015 2:04:37 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter
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>>“It sounds ridiculous and it probably is,” said one GOP operative who has worked closely with organizations using the service.

Yes, because getting run over by Obama’s analytics-based org in 2008 and 2012 was so non-ridiculous. It put the GOP in its proper role as a reluctant witness to history. </s>


3 posted on 07/07/2015 2:06:56 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This explains that Cruz email that I woke up to this morning, telling me about his support for beer and bacon.


4 posted on 07/07/2015 2:07:33 PM PDT by ansel12 (libertarians have always been for gay marriage and polygamy, gay Scout leaders, gay military.)
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Ted Cruz’s presidential effort is working closely with a little-known company owned by his biggest donor that uses non-traditional “psychographic” analyses of voters to try to win them over with narrowly targeted micro-messages, POLITICO has learned. The company, Cambridge Analytica, has sent staff to Cruz’s campaign headquarters in Houston to help set up an intensive data analysis operation.

"Cue spooky music."

Are they embedding subliminal messages in Cruz' commercials? What about backwards masking?

5 posted on 07/07/2015 2:10:44 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I started psychographic firm once.
It was called LSDColorPencil INC.
I retired at 22.


6 posted on 07/07/2015 2:12:19 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good. About time the good guys get with the program.


7 posted on 07/07/2015 2:12:37 PM PDT by SuzyQue
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Meanwhile, we have a POTUS now, that if he could, would go full-bore Joe Stalin on his “enemies” (you & me). /preaching to choir


8 posted on 07/07/2015 2:13:46 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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a little-known company owned by his biggest donor that uses non-traditional “psychographic” analyses of voters to try to win them over with narrowly targeted micro-messages

Why not? It worked for the other side.



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9 posted on 07/07/2015 2:13:57 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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Tech Savvy is good.


10 posted on 07/07/2015 2:14:32 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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I think I saw one of their presentations at a GOP State meeting a couple years ago....and, as someone else said....tech savvy is good....it’s just that it creeped me out all the data they were collecting on people.


11 posted on 07/07/2015 2:17:35 PM PDT by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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Good thing no other candidate, or the Democrats, or Hillary, does this terrible thing.

Oh BTW, did you see the new Rihanna video showing BLACK STREET women kidnapping, stripping naked, hanging, torturing and murdering a WHITE RICH woman?

Thank God that wasn’t calculated and scripted by political and social analysts to deliberately provoke and create race and class hatred, envy rage and violence!

After all, it’s just a video guaranteed to be inhaled by the fifty million most influenced sort of people by a megastar out of Hollywood scooping in tens of millions on it. Nobody would use THAT to destabilize the country.


12 posted on 07/07/2015 2:20:52 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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Wow this sounds so evil.

Maybe he should just go ask Google and Facebook for help.

Oh dang. Hillary and ¡Jebito! are already getting that for free.


13 posted on 07/07/2015 2:21:36 PM PDT by bakeneko
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The liberals at politico need to look elsewhere for dark deeds and evil purposes.


14 posted on 07/07/2015 2:29:03 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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“Troppus Det Zurc WON!!!” Scary stuff indeed..... Who knows what’s next?


15 posted on 07/07/2015 2:29:41 PM PDT by alstewartfan (If I should live to be seven I might forget Stephanie. Al Stewart)
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Yep I can hear the theme to Dark Shadows =)


16 posted on 07/07/2015 2:32:07 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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Scary stuff indeed..... Who knows what’s next?

I'd be far more concern about the demonRats using "mind control" tactics like this than just about anyone on our side. They, after all, are trying to destroy the US we know and love.

17 posted on 07/07/2015 2:43:54 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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“Cue spooky music.”

No, cue “Smart”. Here is an true example of using psycho information to get the response you want:

A band director in a smallish school needed students to join the beginning band class. With a limited number of students, it was a choice between band and football.

A psychological form, called something else of course, called “I like”, were passed out to all these students. There were questions like, “Who would you like with you to go to the movies? Who are your best friends? Who do you think is the smartest student in your group? You would like to study with _____. There were numerous questions like these.

The forms were gathered and the students who were chosen the most on the forms, were talked to about joining the band and offered their choice of the instruments the band owned. These students chose band and that caused other students to follow them and join the band. That is how there were many students who chose band.

It's smart for Cruz to use this method for contacting voters.

Using psycho information gathered about people in a campaign, allows voters to be chosen according to their conservative choices and that gives the candidate his likely voters and eliminates money waste contacting voters who wouldn't vote for a conservative.

18 posted on 07/07/2015 2:53:25 PM PDT by Marcella (TED CRUZ Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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Don’t have to worry about Democrats, they have no brains.


19 posted on 07/07/2015 3:34:57 PM PDT by MN_Mike (Cruz 2016)
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20 posted on 07/07/2015 3:49:48 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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