The Shocking Paper Predicting the End of Democracy. Everything was unfolding as it usually does.
The academics who gathered in Lisbon this summer for the International Society of Political Psychologists’ annual meeting had been politely listening for four days, nodding along as their peers took to the podium and delivered papers on everything from the explosion in conspiracy theories to the rise of authoritarianism. Then, the mood changed. How the American Sangh built up Tulsi Gabbard. TULSI GABBARD, a United States Congresswoman, entered the historic First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles to the strains of Marvin Gaye’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”
She shook hands with her cheering fans, leaped on stage with a smile, accepted a garland of white flowers from a supporter, folded her hands in greeting and said, “Aloha.” It was a sunny Saturday morning in March 2019, and she was campaigning for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. Addressing an animated crowd of hundreds, she urged them to “stand together.” The 38-year-old representative for Hawaii’s second congressional district, who frequently refers to herself as a “Karma Yogi,” declared that the nation is divided. “What we are seeing is this dark shadow caused by a corruption of spirit that is ruling our land,” she warned—a clear reference to the polarisation of Trump’s America.
Outside the venue, around two dozen people had gathered to protest. The Oligarch Threat. On July 24, 2019, a buoyant Boris Johnson swept past crowds shouting “Bollocks to Brexit!
Bollocks to Boris!” And was ushered into the hushed splendor of Buckingham Palace. There, he shook hands with the antique, bejeweled Queen Elizabeth II, and became the prime minister of Great Britain, elected not by popular mandate but by members of his Conservative Party. With The Help of Digital Infrastructure, Obama Wins Re-election. Barack Obama won re-election to a second term as the 44th president of the United States Tuesday night, with a campaign that was undergirded by disciplined digital effort that relied heavily on targeted voter communications, an ambitious ground game, and extensive and innovative use of social media and online fundraising tools.
Obama squeaked by with almost 50 percent of the nation's popular vote, and a 303-206 advantage in electoral votes Tuesday night, thanks to key victories in the battleground states Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Nevada. President Obama's 2012 digital campaign as an incumbent was a much more top-down and meticulously organized affair than his more free-wheeling 2008 run against the political establishment, which had more of a barn-raising character to it both online and off. Everything We Know (So Far) About Obama’s Big Data Tactics. Now, members of the campaign are starting to open up about what their team actually did with all that data.
Election maps. Email: Thanks to everyone who wrote in about the maps.
I've received so much email that I may not be able to reply to everyone, but I much appreciate all your comments and suggestions. Many of the things people have been asking about are answered in this list of frequently asked questions. Campaign Explorer - 2012 Election Center - Elections & Politics from CNN.com. While the whole nation votes, the Obama and Romney campaigns are concentrating on specific states during the presidential race.
The campaigns have mostly put up ads in battleground states (think Ohio or Florida). Required reading for 2012 election: The best stories about the Obama and Romney contest. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images One of the unwelcome perks of political reporting is the widespread belief among your peers that you want to spend more time talking about politics.
Any trip home, like the one I’m going to make on Thursday, becomes a tour of friends and family who want me to explain the inside story of the election one more time. I end up pointing these people to good articles by other people, by insiders and investigative reporters, and this usually gives me enough time to run away. You can try it, too. This may have felt like a dull election at times, but it was one of the most pointed clashes of ideologies and strategies in decades. When the Nerds Go Marching In - Technology. How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama's reelection Three members of Obama's tech team, from left to right: Harper Reed, Dylan Richard, and Mark Trammell (Photo by Daniel X.
O'Neil). The Obama campaign's technologists were tense and tired. It was game day and everything was going wrong. Josh Thayer, the lead engineer of Narwhal, had just been informed that they'd lost another one of the services powering their software. Project Dreamcatcher: How cutting-edge text analytics can help the Obama campaign determine voters’ hopes and fears. Every Movement Scrutinized: President Obama’s Project Narwhal. There’s more than meets the eye with narwhals.
One might picture the “unicorn of the sea:” a tusked porpoise related to the dolphins. But now, another narwhal rears its head – one that also occupies the darkness of the sea, stirring the water beneath, while the surface appears calm: President Obama’s ‘Project Narwhal.’ Project Narwhal describes the Obama team’s efforts to connect previously separate databases so that information on potential voters becomes accessible to the various branches of Obama’s campaign. In other words, Narwhal surfaces as a gigantic voter profile information system for the Obama team as a whole.
Obama's 'Project Houdini' Revealed. Romney Campaign Enlists Help of 'Killer Whale' Project to Get Out the Vote. 54293Romney Campaign Enlists Help of Orca Project to Get Vote OutFor months now, the Romney campaign has been putting together a high-tech voter monitoring operation to use on Election Day that will identify which of their committed supporters have voted --- and then corral those who haven't. They call it the Orca Project, named for the powerful killer whale.2012-11-05 17:30:00disabledccwyKIuUWBktrue For months now, the Romney campaign has been putting together a high-tech voter monitoring operation to use on Election Day that will identify which of their committed supporters have voted — and then corral those who haven’t.
Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown. It was supposed to be a "killer app," but a system deployed to volunteers by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign may have done more harm to Romney's chances on Election Day—largely because of a failure to follow basic best practices for IT projects. Called "Orca," the effort was supposed to give the Romney campaign its own analytics on what was happening at polling places and to help the campaign direct get-out-the-vote efforts in the key battleground states of Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Colorado. Instead, volunteers couldn't get the system to work from the field in many states—in some cases because they had been given the wrong login information. The system crashed repeatedly. At one point, the network connection to the Romney campaign's headquarters went down because Internet provider Comcast reportedly thought the traffic was caused by a denial of service attack.
As one Orca user described it to Ars, the entire episode was a "huge clusterfuck. " All tell, no show Flying blind. United States Elections Project. The Path to 270. SOURCE: AP/ Pat Sullivan Changing demographics and the perceived and real state of the economy will play a huge role in determining the presidential winner when voters head to the polls in 2012. By John Halpin and Ruy Teixeira | November 22, 2011. Pundit Prediction Scorecard: Rating 25 election oracles - Gatekeeper. George Will sees the status quo preserved - Winston-Salem Journal: Columnists. WASHINGTON America's 57th presidential election revealed that a second important national institution is on an unsustainable trajectory. U.S. Election Statistics: A Resource Guide (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress) Compiled by Kenneth Drexler, Digital Reference Specialist This resource guide compiles a list of online and print resources that contain U.S. election statistics for both federal and state elections.
President Exit Polls. The Election Day polls were based on questionnaires completed by voters as they left voting stations throughout the country on Tuesday, supplemented by telephone interviews with absentee and early voters. The President as Metaphor. (Flickr/Adam Jones) Character is destiny, said the Greek philosopher Heraclites—a romantic, maybe, since the implication is that sooner or later the good guy wins. Pundit accountability: The official 2012 election prediction thread.