Obama Team Revolutionizing Voter Records

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/02/17/obama_team_revolutionizing_voter_records.html

Obama Team Revolutionizing Voter Records

Sasha Issenberg: "From a technological perspective, the 2012 campaign will look to many voters much the same as 2008 did. There will not be a major innovation that seems to herald a new era in electioneering, like 1996's debut of candidate Web pages or their use in fundraising four years later; like online organizing for campaign events in 2004 or the subsequent emergence of social media as a mass-communication tool in 2008. This year's looming innovations in campaign mechanics will be imperceptible to the electorate, and the engineers at Obama's Chicago headquarters...may be at work at one of the most important. If successful, Narwhal would fuse the multiple identities of the engaged citizen--the online activist, the offline voter, the donor, the volunteer--into a single, unified political profile."

"More broadly, Narwhal would bring new efficiency across the campaign's operations. No longer will canvassers be dispatched to knock on the doors of people who have already volunteered to support Obama. And if a donor has given the maximum $2,500 in permitted contributions, emails will stop hitting him up for money and start asking him to volunteer instead."

Full article here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101614569

[msongs]

1. they'd be better off saving the 5 million voters repubs are trying to kick off the rolls illegaly nt

[babylonsister]

2. My sweetie-pie, full of positiveness! I know there are some things going on

to respond to the poop the rethugs are trying to do, re: disenfranchising voters.

[eridani]

3. Sounds like a one-off project that will die when Obama leaves office

Unlike the Dean VoteBuilder project intended to build the Democratic Party in all 50 states.

[Scuba]

4. Well, phoning 96 year olds on land lines and asking them to get up off their death beds to vote....

... sure didn't work in 2010.



That's what the Democratic Party had us doing here.

[babylonsister]

5. We can hope they're fine tuning so that doesn't happen this year; sounds like it. nt

[Scuba]

7. We have 30,000 committed volunteers. We'd damn well better not waste them.

[madinmaryland]

6. Narwhal!! F**K Yeah!!