Posted on 08/23/2011 2:28:13 PM PDT by smoothsailing
August 23, 2011
While his critics have been eager to dismiss the Texas Governor as anti-science, the The New York Times takes a look at an upcoming electronic book, "Rick Perry and His Eggheads: Inside the Brainiest Political Operation in America." The book's author shows Perry's approach to politics is at once rigorously scientific and unconventional:
No candidate has ever presided over a political operation so skeptical about the effectiveness of basic campaign tools and so committed to using social-science methods to rigorously test them.
As the 2006 election season approached, the governor’s top strategist, Dave Carney, invited four political scientists into Perry’s war room and asked them to impose experimental controls on any aspect of the campaign budget that they could randomize and measure. Over the course of that year, the eggheads, as they were known within the campaign, ran experiments testing the effectiveness of all the things that political consultants do reflexively and we take for granted: candidate appearances, TV ads, robocalls, direct mail. These were basically the political world’s version of randomized drug trials, which had been used by academics but never from within a large-scale partisan campaign.
The findings from those 2006 tests dramatically changed how Carney prioritized the candidate’s time and the campaign’s money when Perry sought re-election again in 2010 and will inform the way he runs for president now.
The article goes on to discuss the differences between Perry's campaign approach and Obama's. While Obama's chief strategist David Plouffe is know for his technical approach to politics, the Obama campaign may not be as rigorously empirical as Perry's operation. In any event, it sounds like Perry's opponents will underestimate his campaign machine at their peril.
The Bush Clan which includes Rove found their power wasn’t what it once was. They put everything they had behind Kay Baily....and Perry creamed her. Their day has come and gone...
And if one thinks a $6,000 one time contribution will get them in the handshake line at the meet & greet fundraisers for Perry has no knowledge of campaign finance in Texas. Perry has things that he’ll have to explain but his little insinuation isn’t in the ballpark.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas Gov. Rick Perry raised nearly $103 million in campaign contributions from his first inauguration as governor in 2001 through 2010, according to a published report.
Almost half of that money has been given by 204 “mega-donors” of $100,000 or more, according to Texans for Public Justice, a state campaign finance watchdog.
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http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/03c393d4a06f44ecacb3f29a20179bc0/TX—Perry-Contributors/
Don’t forget that Rick Perry is a democrat who put an ‘R’ next to his name in 1989.
Infiltrated the party, so to speak.
I was reading a thread earlier today which included poll results of the various Republican candidates, and as I was looking at those poll results, I began to see why Rove wants Sarah Palin to enter the race.
From the polling results, I took Rick Perry’s polling numbers, Sarah Palin’s polling numbers, and Mitt Romney’s polling numbers (on those polls where all three were listed as Sarah Palin was not on all the polls), and I was amazed to see what occurs when you have both Rick Perry and Sarah Palin in the race.
See the my list below.
From: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2767362/posts
RPC Average
Perry 18.4
Palin 10
Total Perry and Palin 28.4
Romney at 20.2
Fox News
Perry 13
Palin 8
Total Perry and Palin 21
Romney at 21
CNN
Perry 15
Palin 12
Total Perry and Palin 27
Romney at 17
McClatchy
Perry 18
Palin 10
Total Perry and Palin 28
Romney at 21
If one of the Ps had the totals, it would be one of the Ps that would EASILY get the nomination. When the totals are split like that though, it looks like Romney has it all.
Now, now. There’s no reason to start acting like a Palin supporter.
Oh wait....
Are we supposed to be impressed by folks being “scientifically” manipulated?
Lots of campaign cash? Are you serious?
Puh-leez! $6000 out of the $24 million he raised is not “lots” no matter how bad at math one is.
Well, it depends on how much or how little you think of voters. For example, is it a fact that only a fool would vote third party?
I’m sorry you can’t see that the packaging and selling of politicians like a box of soap is a big part of what is destroying our free republic. Along with the enslavement of our political class to the money interests so that they have the resources to fool the people in this way once again, of course.
Stay sorry, it suits you.
Stay in thrall to slick phony unprincipled politicians and their moneyed masters. It obviously suits you.
Too bad about ZZ Top. Used to love their music. My father, a music exec, knew them personally.
Saw them play at the Rodeo. The drugs and booze have taken their toll.
They’re ready for a nursing home. They can’t hit the notes or play anymore.
I don't know about Frank and Dusty, but Billy is a health freak.
Infiltrated the party, so to speak.
You mean like Ronald Reagan and Michele Bachmann?
Not being a devoted fan, I did not discriminate in judging the members of the band.
The two guys out front with the beards were terrible. The score had been simplified to make it easier to play, and they still missed notes. They could not hit the notes in the vocals either.
Bummer. My father used to despair over all the talented musicians he worked with. They had everything a person could want: money, fame, women, adoring fans. But they traded it all for getting high. My father truly loved music above all, and it made him sad.
Did they vow to keep voting like a democrat after they changed affiliation?
But look, it is a known democrat strategy to have their members switch parties so they can control politics from both sides.
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