GOP “Voter Vault” is spying on your toothpaste
How those wascally wepublicans have been winning since 1994, courtesy of Peter Wallsten and Tom Hamburger, who reveal the secret of Voter Vault:
Some of the GOP advantages are recent developments, such as the database called Voter Vault, which was used to precision in the San Diego County special election. The program allows ground-level party activists to track voters by personal hobbies, professional interests, geography — even by their favorite brands of toothpaste…
Republicans have moved well ahead of Democrats nationally in their ability to find previously unaffiliated voters or even wavering Democrats and to target them with specially tailored messages. Voter Vault, although it is a closely guarded GOP trade secret, is nevertheless easily accessible to on-the-ground campaign workers and operatives should they need to mobilize votes in a hurry.
One suburban African American woman in Ohio, for example, told us that though she tends to vote Democratic, she was deluged in 2004 with calls, e-mail messages and other forms of communication by Republicans who somehow knew that she was a mother with children in private schools, an active church attendee, an abortion opponent and a golfer.
But what about her toothpaste? We must find out about her toothpaste. The secret must be in the toothpaste.
June 25th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
Why is the race of the person discussed in the story relevant? It’s not when they talk about people sought or convicted for crimes.
And I love this-
“In Cleveland, Republicans in 2004 compiled a list of Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants who they knew backed Bush’s stance against Islamic terrorism, then organized a rally entirely in Russian on the Sunday before the election.”
How DARE they! Immigrants and Jews are the Democrats’ property! Hands off! Unfair!