Posted on 11/05/2012 4:11:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
For months now, the Romney campaign has been putting together a high-tech voter monitoring operation to use on Election Day that will identify which of their committed supporters have voted -- and then corral those who haven't.
They call it the Orca Project, named for the powerful killer whale. Why Orca? It seems the Orca is the greatest natural predator of the Narwhal, the name of the Obama campaign's top secret voter micro-targeting system.
Orca will deploy 34,000 operatives in key precincts tomorrow, linked by a smartphone "killer app" to 800 volunteers on the floor of TD Garden (formerly Boston Garden). The Romney campaign has tried to keep Orca under wraps until the past few days. But today, Romney for President Communications Director Gail Gitcho proudly described it for us. Watch the interview with Gitcho above.
"At 5 o'clock when the exit polls come out, we won't pay attention to that," Gitcho said Monday. "We will have had much more scientific information just based on the political operation we have set up."
Similarly, Election Day for President Obama's campaign will be the culmination of an extensively detailed and precise get out the vote effort put together by the Democrats.
For several months, the Obama campaign has been operating sophisticated efforts, most notably code named Dreamcatcher and Narwhal, gathering information and sorting voters using a comprehensive set of analytics. Placing potential supporters in categories based on such seemingly benign information as the grocery stores they shop at or brand of beer they drink. From there the campaign has been able to identify voting trends based on specific issues and has targeted its messaging appropriately to maximize the efficiency of its efforts.
On election day, the Obama campaign will shift to its final phase, with Gordon -- a vote tracking system similar to the Project Houdini effort it launched on election day four years ago. Gordon seems to be less ambitious than Houdini was. Four years ago, the Obama campaign assigned each of its likely voters a four digit code that would be messaged to a database by a poll site volunteer after the voter had signed in. The effort overheated and this year the Obama campaign has decided to use a less robust tracking system and divert volunteers to other, more traditional get out the vote efforts.
Long day in a good way, right?
1060 West Addison.
I like your style Mike.
Cheers,
knewshound
Which address did you give? An empty lot, a garbage dump, adult book store, a place on the edge of town, a pro-life clinic?
I guess Wookie was taken.
I’m participating here. It is a great system and I was very impressed as I learned more about it and how it functions. All precincts here are covered from open to closing of the polls.
LOL, would not have worked as Chicago is a long way away!
My house backs to an "alley", which is officially a street and can be googled. There are no houses that front to the "street", so it will come up on google, but they will have no where to go to.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Good to know that WE know who we need to get out to the polls and whether they are showing up and hopefully tracking down the stragglers, although at this point I don’t know who those people would be. On the internals of the Gallup poll today (R-50 O-49) Romney still leads on the economy 52-46. That’s what I see as the key stat in this election and probably close to the final result.
Long day in the sense that there are about 4000 voters registered to go to my polling place in NOVA and the polls are open for 13 hours!
Yea, right.......Your vote is secret and your appearance at the poll is merely checked off the registered voting list.
Now, if it was actually the GOP that abducted me and inserted that probe thing then I would believe this story.........
One reason we should feel better is that only one campaign had such a system last time — and it wasn’t McCain’s.
At the very least we have leveled the playing field here.
LMFAO!!!!!!!!
I came to this thread expecting to read about Chris Christie.
That sounds so much better “Orca Project” than something like “The War Room”...killer whale action....but enviro friendly.
Well, I know this much. The ground game for Florida is HUGE this year. You are going to see a huge explosion for Romney on the Space Coast all the way up to Jacksonville and then way West to Pensacola is going big Romney...I am talking huge. People I know working the ground game in Melbourne, Daytona, Jacksonville, and in the panhandle are saying an uptick of around 20% over 2008 for the GOP.
In Texas it will be a total slaughter with Romney winning by 20% or more.
Was watching a thing on TV a while ago and they showed a couple leftist going to people’s houses looking for them, to sign up or go vote, maybe to take them.
Don’t know which, but the thing is they are going out personally to find their leftist voters. How’s that for being in the belly.
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