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Cruz app data collection helps campaign read minds of voters
AP ^ | February 11, 2016 | MICHAEL BIESECKER and JULIE BYKOWICZ

Posted on 02/11/2016 5:25:41 PM PST by McGruff

His "Cruz Crew" mobile app is designed to gather detailed information from its users' phones -- tracking their physical movements and mining the names and contact information for friends who might want nothing to do with his campaign.

That information and more is then fed into a vast database containing details about nearly every adult in the United States to build psychological profiles that target individual voters with uncanny accuracy.

Cruz's sophisticated analytics operation was heralded as key to his victory in Iowa earlier this month -- the first proof, his campaign said, that the system has the potential to power him to the nomination.

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cnsrvtvtreehouse; cruz; data; datamining; election2016; erickerickson; glennbeck; juliebykowicz; marklevin; megynkelly; michaelbiesecker; pinkstain; pinkstate; politico; privacy; redstate; redstategathering; rogerailes; sundance; tedcruz; texas; theresanappforthat
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Same here. God, this guy is creepy. Just looking at him makes me want to take a shower to get rid of the sleaze.


21 posted on 02/11/2016 7:33:41 PM PST by Catsrus (I callz 'em as I seez 'em)
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To: vette6387

I don’t think it is Trump who will implode, that’s for sure.

The escalating sanctimony set alongside the slimy campaign stunts are looking much more ‘implosive’.


22 posted on 02/11/2016 9:21:47 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Vote Tom Sawyer, because Sid is a sissy snitch and Tom gets the fences whitewashed.)
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To: McGruff

Dang...!

He’ll be wanting supporters first born next...


23 posted on 02/12/2016 3:27:38 AM PST by Stormy_2021
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To: onyx

Onyx, I thought you loved Ted Cruz. You said so several times. Why are you joining in with the Cruz haters?


24 posted on 02/12/2016 4:04:28 AM PST by Moorings
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To: Moorings

Good Morning, Moorings!

Cruz haters? I am not a Cruz hater by any stretch. Just like my post reads, I have kindly explained to his campaign callers that I can’t afford to make additional contributions, but I continue to receive nightly calls.

I prefer Mr. Donald Trump for POTUS but I’ll celebrate if Senator Cruz wins the GOP nomination!


25 posted on 02/12/2016 7:21:14 AM PST by onyx (IF YOU'RE POSTING HERE, HOPE YOU'RE A DONOR! FReepLoaders are RUDE.)
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To: Psalm 144

“I don’t think it is Trump who will implode, that’s for sure.

The escalating sanctimony set alongside the slimy campaign stunts are looking much more ‘implosive’.”

All of the rest of them (save Trump) can see the end of their respective campaigns are very near. Hence the knives are out in desperation. I mean all this BS about eminent domain (now isn’t it at the top of all of our lists of national $hit that needs to be fixed) just nonsense? Emnent Domain is alsmost exclusively an issue with local governments, not the Fed Gov.


26 posted on 02/12/2016 9:08:01 AM PST by vette6387
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