Digital elephants and other things I know nothing about
Except that I’ve a strong hunch that they’re important:
Here is a simple fact: right now, the GOP is on the road to defeat, set to be overwhelmed by a superior digital voter microtargeting operation on the other side, and hamstrung by a refusal to focus on the future of predictive analytics and Big Data application technology. These are the things which translate through e-mail and online contacts, into both donations and (even more importantly) boots on the ground in the thick of a general election campaign: door-to-door mobilization. Everything else ”” the theater, the social media back-and-forths, the SNL appearances and Sunday morning show interviews ”” is almost meaningless. The 2016 pool of potential GOP nominees represents the deepest reserve of young Presidential-level talent the Republican Party has had in ages, and none of it may matter because while the engineers and developers on the Democratic side aren’t necessarily personally invested in Hillary or Bernie, they do believe in the greater Cause. And, more to the point, these are the sorts of people who simply enjoy solving equations and problems.
GOP candidates are facing a mammoth two-pronged problem: 1) the failure of will and lack of funds to field large data-driven get-out-the-vote operations, and; 2) Hillary Clinton’s well funded allies in Silicon Valley, specifically Eric Schmidt and Google. On top of that, this is a party whose candidates look like they are playing catch-up in the areas of digital operations and field mobilization.
The article goes on to state that Republicans have actually made a great many advances in this arena since 2012. But they’re still behind, and that seems to matter.
I suppose we can hope the younger candidates in the GOP field will be more open to campaigning in the digital age using modern tools. The problem will be, there are not many Republicans in Silicon Valley, and that’s what is needed right now. Anyone have a friend working there who can help?
I dont think it matters anyway. It’s Hillary’s turn, or so I’ve been told. She appears to have faced down her biggest threats. Joe Biden’s backing out and her appearance at the Benghazi hearing seem to have rejuvenated her campaign chances.
Only the FBI and Justice Department (Obama’s peeps) can stop her now. She hasn’t even put Bill and Charlotte on display yet!
GOP candidates are facing a mammoth two-pronged problem
Mammoth are like … big elephants.
… and, two pronged.
I call BS. Those techniques don’t work with thinking people. Cargo cultists and sheep maybe. The only counter to the Peter Pan never grow up BS of the young is the coming world war.
The dead elephant party’s problem is we have had enough of their lies and betrayals. Good luck solving that with analytics.
Like the Mammoths, soon to be extinct …
I work in the field of “Cloud” and “Big Data”. I have no idea about the current state of GOP progress on this front.
I think they have a bigger problem. I am a putative Republican. I’ve lived in suburban Philadelphia for 25 years. I’ve voted in every Presidential and Congressional election since I was 18. I’ve been gerrymandered into congressional district currently represented by a nice safe country club/Chamber of Commerce RINO.
I voted for Senator Toomey, thinking was one of us. What a disappointment.
Of the current “top tier” (why do we let the MSM make those rules btw?), there are two I could enthusiastically pull the lever for. A third I’d show up for. The rest? No true believer showing up at my door step, armed with mobile app fed with by a big data back end, telling me that *this* is the most important election of our lifetime will convince me to show up. No more playing Charlie Brown with the football with Lucy for me.
I am currently consulting for a named brand Silicon Valley company. I was in their cafeteria and happened to overhear a couple of young men put a question to one of their colleagues, likely a Canadian. “Trudeau won, that good right? He believes in gay marriage right?”
Hillary Clinton is exposed as the liar she is, and the MSM yawns.
Obama has succeeded in just one thing make me a stranger in my own country. I weep for the country I once loved.
The Republicans pours salt in the wounds of our injuries and claim it is the best they can do.
Big Data and mobile apps won’t save them. Perhaps only a counter-revolution will save us.
If Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergei Brin want to turn the fearsome resources of Google over to Clinton as they did to Obama it is about time to put a $$ in-kind figure on that aid and subjecting such aid to campaign donation limits.
Were elections decided by who could make the most 3-point baskets having Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley donating their time as consultants might skew the results. Having the people who write the algorithms that will influence the outcome of the election on one side of the fence will do the same.
Campaign finance laws are corrupt. They know how to play that game. Just get rid of it, if you can. But you will find that just like profits from law suits and torts… you can’t get rid of it. Want to know why?