Tag Archives: obama
Voter info wars: GOP teams up with Wal-Mart’s data specialist?
April 14, 2013 – 11:46 pm
By Lois Beckett, ProPublica
The Republicans have admitted it: They need to get serious about collecting and analyzing voter data.
Well, you can’t get much… more
Racist post-election tweets concentrated in the South
November 12, 2012 – 9:20 am
FloatingSheep did an interesting analysis of racist tweets that preceded and followed the presidential election in the U.S. Turns out the tweets were concentrated in… more
How companies assembled political profiles for millions of Internet users
November 1, 2012 – 1:05 am
By Lois Beckett, ProPublica
If you’re a registered voter and surf the web, one of the sites you visit has almost certainly placed a tiny… more
Obama reaches out to Latinos via mobile app
July 31, 2012 – 5:00 am
The Obama campaign released a smartphone application today that will help the campaign narrowly focus its efforts during the last 100 days leading into the… more