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Project Orca: How an IT Disaster Destroyed Republicans' Get-Out-The-Vote Effort
cheesecake23 writes "Many talking heads have attributed Obama's success to an unmatched 'ground game.' Now, inside reports from campaign volunteers suggest that Project Orca, a Republican, tech-based voter monitoring effort with 37,000 volunteers in swing states, turned out to be an epic failure due to dismal IT. Problems ranged from state-wide incorrect PINs, to misleading and delayed information packets delivered to volunteers, to a server outage and missing redirection of secure URLs."
The Republicans probably outsourced IT management to India, but you're fool if you don't believe that Democrats aren't also going to give us a police state. The first four years of Obama's term should have already clued you in.
Do they even have "the Internets" in trailer parks, yet? I would think it wouldnn't ve economical to lay down the tubes there.
Conservatives and Oldsters bad with technology? Who would have ever expected that?
Good riddance.
This place is not a lapdop to the Democratic party. I bet we have just as many Greens and Libertarians. What we don't have are a bunch of far rightwing Fascists that love to protect the 1%.
Keep crying your tears are delicious.
that's half of it.
and the other half is that a backward, anti-freedom police state party full of mega-corporate bitches won.
Past the hot button issues that give the illusion that people have a choice, Obama has done a *wonderful* job continuing the very worst of the Bush-Cheney agenda. what a liar, what a crook, what an empty suit. Even his vaunted "Health Care Bill" does nothing but further enrich big pharmy, big insurance, big healthcare chains.
Because there is a difference between choosing to help others in need and choosing to force others to help other people in need. One is called charity and one is called slavery. Republicans are on the side of charity.
I often don't like the choices people make, but I like the fact that people make choices. That's why I'm a conservative.