Quote:few years back on the news where organizers were caught on tap haling in boxes and boxes of absentee ballets...
Where was the verification?
Lotta 'anecdotal' in that. I don't know, what actually happened?
Was an election decided by the number of votes in those boxes? Were all of the ballots unverified?
Did Obama win in '12 by a combination of 6M 'unverified absentee votes' and Dem 'machine' voter fraud?
Or was it a mediocre candidate with an equally mediocre, technologically backward 'ground game'?
PLENTY of evidence to confirm both of those charges, particularly the 2nd one.
I guess that as with facts, tech has a 'liberal bias' too. LOL!
http://www.wired.com/2015/10/why-the-gop-just...t-problem/
Oczkowski’s fear that the Democratic party is outpacing the GOP in terms of tech innovation is not exactly a new one. The gap between the tech talent pools within the two parties has been the subject of debate ever since 2008, when President Obama’s election demonstrated the increasing importance of digital campaigning.
The difference only became more stark in 2012 when Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s much-hyped voter targeting tool, nicknamed ORCA, suffered a total meltdown on Election Day. In contrast, the tool President Obama’s team had built, called Narwhal, has been credited as crucial to the Democratic win.
This loss in 2012 inspired the Republican National Committee to launch the Growth and Opportunity Project, a sort of post mortem on the party’s tech capabilities. One of the key recommendations published in the Project’s final report was that the party needed to be more aggressive in recruiting tech talent.
“More active recruiting on college campuses, providing internships and scholarships, and recruiting from commercial firms that may harbor talent with relevant skills sets is critical in providing the talent for future campaigns,” the report said.
And yet, two years later, as the presidential election cycle heats up again, it’s still not clear that the candidates have taken those recommendations to heart.
While Jeb Bush’s campaign has recruited top Romney staffer Alex Lundry, who is now Bush’s head of data, the rest of the tech talent within the party is scattered among its many candidates, and technologists from outside the political world are hard to find.
Clinton’s campaign, meanwhile, has managed to recruit the majority of Obama’s tech and digital braintrust, as well as tech industry leaders, like former Googler Stephanie Hannon, now Clinton’s chief technology officer.
“I can’t think of anyone on the GOP side that’s got someone as significant as Stephanie,” says Chris Abrams, co-founder of Lincoln Labs, an advocacy group for conservative technologists. “It’s not that it can’t be done. I just think the culture as a whole, it’s just liberal.”
Tech’s leftist leanings are often cited as the main reason Democrats have excelled in the tech talent battle. Some of Silicon Valley’s marquee names, after all—Eric Schmidt, Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer, Sergey Brin, Marc Benioff, and others—are known Democratic supporters.
And while a Libertarian strain certainly runs through the tech industry, San Francisco’s liberal values tend to dominate. As former RNC chief technical officer and Facebook veteran Andy Barkett once put it in The Washington Post, “I knew who was gay on my team at Facebook, but I had no idea who was a Republican.”
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