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Covers:  online politics, government and political data, new york city, national politics, media, politics, new york city tech, social media, technology
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The Obama Campaign's Legacy: Listen, Experiment, and Analyze Everything

The Obama Campaign's Legacy: Listen, Experiment, and Analyze Everything

techpresident.com — The big story of the 2012 Obama campaign was not just that staffers were able to weave together information about voters using data integration in ways that had bedeviled the campaign in 2008. Nor was it the campaign's ability to test nearly every tactic, from email subject lines and landing pages to the scripts that volunteers read from as they went door to door. (With Micah L. Sifry)
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How Obama for America Made Its Facebook Friends Into Effective Advocates

How Obama for America Made Its Facebook Friends Into Effective Advocates

techpresident.com — People involved in Obama for America's digital and technology operations say one of the biggest takeaways from the 2012 campaign is the success of a new kind of peer-to-peer digital persuasion tool referred to internally as "targeted sharing."
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For Romney's Digital Campaign, a Second-Place Finish

For Romney's Digital Campaign, a Second-Place Finish

techpresident.com — At every phase of the campaign, Mitt Romney's digital operation was half a step behind the technological savvy of Barack Obama's online team - at several moments, announcing features or ideas hours, days or months after the Obama campaign had already rolled them out.
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Why Campaigns Are Happy Your Vote Isn't as Private as Many Think It Is

Why Campaigns Are Happy Your Vote Isn't as Private as Many Think It Is

techpresident.com — A get-out-the-vote tactic, called "social pressure" by some and "shaming" by others, is partly driving the latest round of hand-wringing over the data-driven, highly targeted political present. Rather than using commercial marketing data about voters, these strategies use public records and social connections to convince people to vote. There are shades of this in the tools now in play from both presidential campaigns.
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If Your Friend Writes a Political Rant on Facebook, Will It Change Your Mind?

If Your Friend Writes a Political Rant on Facebook, Will It Change Your Mind?

techpresident.com — There's a joke quote circulating on Facebook that goes like this: "'Your relentless political Facebook posts finally turned me around to your way of thinking,' said nobody, ever." The funny thing is, that might not actually be true.
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For Internet Freedom Activists, Dubai is a Warning: Finally Live Up to the "Inclusive" Label Or Else

For Internet Freedom Activists, Dubai is a Warning: Finally Live Up to the "Inclusive" Label Or Else

techpresident.com — While Internet freedom activists say the "multistakeholder" model that shapes the current Internet is open and inclusive, photograph any meeting of any of the organizations within it and a certain kind of face will appear far more often than any of the others: the white, Western male.
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The Guns and Gun Data Debate, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the End of Privacy

The Guns and Gun Data Debate, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the End of Privacy

techpresident.com — Public equals online. We just don't know what that means.
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How Free Software Activists are Hacking Occupy's Source Code

How Free Software Activists are Hacking Occupy's Source Code

techpresident.com — As early on as last November, a growing group of technologists decided that they would help the Occupy movement by providing the kinds of modern tools that 21st-century political advocacy now seems to require. But they would do it the way the rest of Occupy does things, with a focus on "being the change," so to speak.
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Online Organizing In Wisconsin May Show Shades of Things to Come

Online Organizing In Wisconsin May Show Shades of Things to Come

techpresident.com — Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has many factors to thank for his victory in Tuesday's recall election. His supporters raised $7.50 for every dollar in Democrat Tom Barrett's campaign coffers and outspent Barrett's supporters in advertising. But one of the most striking things about his victory is that Republican grassroots activists used the web to mobilize a polarized electorate, something Democrats have traditionally been able to do more effectively.
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Teddy Goff and Joe Rospars On How Obama's Campaign Is Trying to Get Back to the "We"

Teddy Goff and Joe Rospars On How Obama's Campaign Is Trying to Get Back to the "We"

techpresident.com — Getting back to the "we" of Barack Obama's 2008 campaign - the now-legendary level of energy and individual commitment from grassroots volunteers that Obama was able to harness en route to an improbable victory in the Democratic primary and then in the general election for the presidency of the United States - is in many ways the "central challenge" of his 2012 re-election effort, Obama for America Digital Director Teddy Goff said.
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