Posted on 06/11/2012 3:10:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Four years ago Barack Obama’s presidential campaign set an impressive new standard for using social media and technology to harness votes.
But this time round Obama’s campaign have raised the bar even higher and, according to experts, this advantage could make all the difference to securing a second term in office.
According to a report by Politico today, Obama’s campaign know ‘what you read and where you shop, what kind of work you do and who you count as friends. They also know who your mother voted for in the last election.’
Carried out by 150 techies this extensive data mining could give Obama the crucial edge, in what is believed to be a tight race to the White House this November.
Through Facebook, Twitter and other online sources, the campaign is working tirelessly to create a formidable data base collecting specific profiles of potential voters.
Depending on factors, such as age, interests and socio-economic levels, the campaign is able to tailor messages to these potential voters.
'They are way ahead of Romney micro-targeting and it’s a level of precision we haven’t seen before,' Darrell M. West, a leading scholar on technology innovation at the Brookings Institution, told Politico.
Unsurprisingly, the Obama campaign believes the effort and money being poured into gaining a technological advantage will pay off....
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All the more delicious if he can see how screwed he is.
So they will tailor their campaign to appeal to a bunch of brainless kids under 30, a group that already votes overwhelmingly liberal.
Pure genius, that!
If Fox network TV were to run a Star Trek movie marathon on election day none of the idiots would make it to the polls.
“In short, the incompetent moron in the oval office has to go because”
Obama is not incompetent. He knows exactly what direction he wants to steer this nation and that makes him all the more dangerous. The man is the biggest threat to the republic since the Civil War.
I am happy everytime I see Obama buy commercial time or perform data mining.
It lessens the credibility of the "Obama is planning to cancel the election" theory.
He can make all the targeted appeals he wants but when the mass of voters know you and your promises can’t be trusted such promises are not very effective.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Flood their trusted social networks with false data.
Create a false facebook account on how much you love Obama, will give away your lifes fortune, home and first born to him.
Flood the network with gobblygook.
Regardless what experts say quantity has its own quality when done large enough, a grassroots plan of action to figuratively urinate in their swimming pool will make it foul smelling and unusable.
Every day a small function like sending an email to yourself congratulating Obama will take away a resource from them when they then try to track it and to send you progressive suggestions and spam.
Sometimes you have to get down and dirty to clean up the overflowing cesspool. Turn their game against them, use their rules to befuddle them.
Four years ago it mattered because he was an unknown quantity with no paper trail who could be packaged as a rock start.
He is no longer an unknown quantity. We know he's not a rock star.
Just like Santa Claus! Oh, joy!/s
Just did a quick check and Barack Obama has 29 million "likes" on Facebook and about 16 million followers on Twitter. By comparison, Mitt Romney has about 2 million likes and only a fraction of the Twitter followers that Obama has.
Now it's easy to sit here and scoff at that and say "so what?" But consider that whenever Obama sends out a Twit, it's landing on almost 20 million cellphones across America. If, on election day, he can get 10% of those followers to go to the polls (when they otherwise would have forgotten about it), that's two million extra votes right there. That could make a huge difference.
Now granted, Obama doesn't have anywhere near the enthusiasm he had four years ago. But we must not be complacent.
In a way, Free Republic itself is part of social media. But remember that our numbers only reflect a small fraction of the conservatives and independents that are out there. The Tea Party movement needs to get a little savvier with respect to social media.
“All the data-mining in the world cannot guarantee who someone selects in a voting booth.”
No. But you can taregt ads to these people. Even ads that are subliminal in nature.
David Limbaugh cites a case of a weekly newspaper in California which was planning to run a story which had one sentence that could be read as less than flattering to Michelle Obama. The Obama people came down on them like a ton of bricks until they agreed to remove that sentence. They are vigilant and controlling.
My wife and I watch “The Pitch” on AMC. We are continually amazed at the incompetence of the winning agencies’ campaigns. PR has little effect upon trying to sell a repackaged bum to the public.
Got two neighbors with three adult children....Have never voted, they all have now registered so they can “vote against Obama”...Seems to me.Obama has done a lot to “get out the vote”;~)
why did you use a question mark?
Hitler had to put somebody on the first trains to the camps. Obama probably has a few Freepers, he has a few DU'ers on their list too. That civilian force is needed for rounding up the radicals on both sides.
What I find so incredible is that there is any doubt in your mind about what this clown playing POTUS wants to do.
Just because he’s tracking his enemies doesn’t mean he’s not working on a way to ‘cancel the election’.
I have talked to IT techies who worked on a huge data mining project in New York State. It was intended to identify New York residents who bought stuff via mail order or who shopped at malls in other states, but did not pay NY sales tax. It would identify these purchases and then crank out tax bills to them.
The techies who worked on this thing openly referred to it as “Eliot Spitzer’s Wet Dream”. We can only imagine what the Democrats intend to do with the data from this fishing expedition.
Only if reported in the media.
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