Somehow it's hard to believe that the Republicans are babes in the woods when it comes to data mining. I'm not saying Obama's not data mining, but this would imply that only Obama is doing this. This story sounds like what Ross Perot had called the dirty tricks campaign, a hey! look over there!, while they do exactly the same thing. The Republicans stole the 2000 election, in conjunction with the Supreme Court, and they don't know about data mining? CNN is saying only Democrats run their campaigns using IT specialists? Even worse, CNN expects us to believe that? While they, CNN, ran a virtual news blackout of the Occupy Wall Street protests until they could no longer ignore it? Look over there for sure from your friendly neighborhood Republican presidential campaign, I'm convinced of it anyway. Andy ________________________________ From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, October 9, 2011 2:07 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] data mining This is pretty impressive -- http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/09/tech/innovation/obama-data-crunching-election/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 Julie Krueger