Think Target and Home Depot invade your privacy? Political campaigns might be worse

LA Times ^ | January 27, 2016 | Evan Halper

[C19fan]

When presidential candidates turn to data crunchers at Rocket Fuel in Silicon Valley for help finding voters who want tougher immigration enforcement, the firm comes up with a surprisingly specific answer: Chevy truck drivers who like Starbucks.

The data modeling from Rocket Fuel shows that this group leans against a path to citizenship for workers in the U.S. illegally. And these particular voters have become surprisingly easy – some argue creepily so – for campaigns to find and approach. So have consumers of frozen vegetables, who are more likely to oppose abortion. As have people curious about diabetes, a group that tends to settle on a candidate early in the race.

[CharlesOConnell]

Frozen broccoli stinks. Literally. The freezing process seems to free up sulfur in the broccoli, so that it smells like dirty diapers. My parents used to put in a piece of bread with it, but it doesn't work.

Why am I pro-life?

Sixty-Four Percent (64%) of Aborting Moms 'Felt Pressured By Others' (217 sample population)

I don't eat many frozen vegetables.

[Albion Wilde]

Frozen broccoli stinks. Literally. The freezing process seems to free up sulfur in the broccoli, so that it smells like dirty diapers. My parents used to put in a piece of bread with it, but it doesn't work.

Try olive oil and garlic.