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Vote Stalkers: Obama, Romney Campaigns Mine Trove of Voters’ Online Data to Win ’12 Election

Amy Goodman

Democracy Now! / Video Report

Published: Monday 15 October 2012

“The Obama campaign pioneered the data-mining strategy, and the Romney team put one together once he won the primary.”

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A new Mother Jones report looks at how the Romney and Obama campaigns are digitally mining personal data in order to get out the vote. Focusing their efforts online, the campaigns have been using cookies and various data mining techniques to determine which voters to target, and how to do it on a scale and scope that has never been seen before. The Obama campaign pioneered the data-mining strategy, and the Romney team put one together once he won the primary. We’re joined by Mother Jones reporter Tim Murphy.

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ABOUT Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman is the host of "Democracy Now!," a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on more than 900 stations in North America. She is the author of "Breaking the Sound Barrier," recently released in paperback and now a New York Times best-seller.

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