Obama’s crew bragged that their Civitas database could identify voters down to the individual, and that they had megatons of data on each one. They use it to get out the vote and do fundraising.
IRS targeted conservatives and TEA party leaders. IRS also collected data on how these people are networked.
Suppose this was used not for get-out-the-vote for Democrats?
Also, what if this Civitas machine, IRS work, NSA work and other programs we don’t know about were used to do deep network analysis to identify Republicans who might enter a primary race, and make that difficult for them to accomplish.
Coupled with the State Run media’s obvious efforts to shape primaries, the confluence could be the result: a Republican candidate that conservatives did not trust and a low White turnout.
And then there’s Romney’s GOTV machine - which crashed and burned.
Hard for me to draw too many constituent conclusions when the GOTV of the two candidates was so incredibly mis-matched.