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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The Obama techie campaign can’t be all THAT sophisticated... they still have me on their email list.... I get that trash from Biden, and Moochelle all the time... just to let Gmail be confused.
However, whoever is running DU has it figured out. I signed up, using a different email account (one that I haven’t used much). Made ONE post... that was innocuous.. no political slant either way.. and, they canceled my account. Didn’t take them long to figure out that I am ultra-conservative.
Grocery stores requiring you to get a savings card for the sale prices. This allows them to keep a record of your purchases and target emails and printed coupons to your spending habits. In my experience, I have gotten spam and coupons about kids products, snack foods, etc. I imagine Obama’s data mining will mean if I buy female items at the store, I will receive an Obama spam telling me that Romney will take away my contraception choices or something like that.
If they can find unregistered, pro-Obama users of facebook, bulletin boards, etc., then I suppose 150 researchers could come up with an impressive list. But, a person-by-person search would take a lot of time, imho. If each of the 150 found was able to ID one person an hour, I’d think that would be exceptional. On a 12 hour day between now and the election that would total only about a quarter million people.
That’s not really that many voters. They’d do better to discover some formula that ID’s these people, but no matter how the ID process goes, they’d still have to get them inspired enough to register and then to vote.
An unregistered Obama sympathizer doesn’t strike me as an easily motivated person. I simply can’t see motivating them to go out and find others like themselves. I can’t even see it being easy to motivate them to get registered, must less get them to actually vote.
Please don’t try to confuse us by calling that douche bag a turd; if we’d had a genuine turd to vote for in 2008 we might not have had him at all.
With IRS and FBI files in his hands, he can sure data mine us and make sure those voting against him wont be counted or be destroyed.
Fortunately that is true, but with a dossier on everyone, the 0bama regime can effectively harass those that oppose their edicts and make life miserable. I strongly suspect they are already using this to some extent, given the hassle I received just passing through customs recently.
It doesn't mean they will vote or have the desire to they did 4 years ago, it is the enthusiasm gap thingee they got goin' on...
But I do fear the following...
If they know who they are, what extent will they go to, to get them to the polls, OR, how otherwise might their votes be "cast"......
I cannot believe that a system can be so sophisticated that they can target you or me yet do stupid things like say the economy is fine then a few hours later, wait, no the econmy is not fine. NOT a well oiled machine. Barry Soetoro’s campaign will continue tripping on it’s own feet.
Only in establishing who goes left and who goes right when we get to the camps.
Why I don't 'Facebook', Twitter, etc.
The less that is out there, the less there is to mine.
No not even in a case of blackmail.
It was a dull-witted article in a slow news cycle that someone was made to gin up on a Sunday.
Mittens has much the same thing going. It's not how you do it, it's what you do with the data.
Fer instance, did the detestable Wisconsin union mailers/robocalls that revealed 'Who wasn't voting in your neighborhood, in your neighborhood' do them a bit of good? Surely it cost them votes.
Bobo's campaign cabal is likely, no, assuredly to ignore that lesson and misapply any statistical strategy that surfaces from data mining.
The datamining operation may not be able to change a vote before it is cast, but it can make an autodealership go out of business if they supported the wrong guy.
Everybody should tweed, whatevr, - “FUBO”
let Kenyan get the message
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
I’ve had a lot of luck with something called Avast! Free Antivirus.
How in the world did the Obama people know what was going into an article in a little weekly paper? Do newspapers have to submit their stories to the DNC and SEIU nowadays before they go to press?
You got that right-- I snarled "FUBO!" yesterday every time one of those things showed up on my monitor.
“I’m not a techie at all. Is this important?”
Hello, I’ve been lurking on these forums for 11 years now. This thread really got my attention. Acxiom corporation has one of the worlds largest databases of people in the U.S. Whether Acxiom will confirm it or not, they have about 7.200 to 7.800 points of data on “YOU”. Meaning, they have information on everybody in the U.S. Acxiom is a democratic corporation, they started thier business by maintaining a database of Democratic Party memberships for the Democratic party when they started. Now they’ve gone way beyond just that. Does Axciom know whether you are Democratic or Republican or Independent party affiliated? You bet they do. What do they do with this data? Oh I don’t know maybe plan on how to steal votes maybe? I have been unemployed for a LONG time and unable to find a job for some reason. It is confusing to me. Every job I apply for pretty much gets no response or no reply. And call me paranoid but I think I have somewhat of an Idea what is going on. Nowdays all applications and resumes are not even looked at people anymore, they are just shoveled into an ATS or TMS (Applicant Tracking System) or (Talent Management System).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applicant_tracking_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent_management_system
My suspicion is that ATS and TMS software packages do a “quick” background check on each resume or application that comes in, no human oversight. This is probably automatic.
I apply..... to some company .... online through thier w/e ATS/TMS package they use.
ATS/TMS sends a quick query to Acxiom (Does this applicant have a criminal record?)
Acxiom: “Hmmm lets see, (No he doesn’t have a criminal record!)” and I don’t have a criminal record at all, none whatsoever.
Acxiom: “Hmmm lets see is he a Democratic Party Member?” (Nope!).
Acxiom: Returns value (YES) to ATS/TMS, Implicating that I do have a criminal record or something.
ATS/TMS: Buries my resume /application, marking me as not hireable.
Now do you see how data mining could be a huge problem? From denying you your freedoms under the constitution, to doing even more nefarious things.
So great I’m not a Democrat and my suspicions are that somehow I have been marked as unhirable.
Even worse, I think the largest TMS system (TALEO) actively shares data on applicants across multiple businesses, further poisioning my job / career opportunities, for life.
Data mining can be used for far WORSE things than you can Imagine. Anywhere from stealing and auto-switching votes around, to making your life pure hell.
The Obama campaign does unprecedented data mining, EXCEPT when contributions are involved. Then they are like Sgt. Schultz, “I know nothing” about who is giving the money.
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