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FWD.us: GOP Voters To Be Targeted By Data Scientists

Posted by Soulskill on from the also-every-other-type-of-voter dept.

theodp writes: "We are excited to announce that FWD.us and Hackers/Founders are joining forces to host the 'DEBUG DC' Growthathon on June 21st & June 22nd," reads the blog over at FWD.us, the PAC whose Founders and Major Contributors include current and former CEOs from Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, and LinkedIn. "This is a unique opportunity to push the envelope in online advocacy for immigration reform." The blog entry explains, "The machine of government is wedged, and is in desperate need of debugging. How do we DEBUG DC? Step One: Target critical legislative districts. Step Two: Data mine these districts to find registered voters who are registered Republicans who we think are likely to support immigration reform. Step Three: Growth hack ways to motivate these people to effectively engage their legislators to tell them they want them to call for a vote on immigration reform. Step Four: Measure results. Step Five: Iterate." The Eventbrite invitation for the event includes a call for Data Scientists who are "pissed off about immigration and want to fix it," are "well versed in statistics and data analysis," and can "infer voter sentiment from sparse data." So, how does this jibe with the outrage expressed by the FWD.us supporters' companies over unauthorized government surveillance?

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  1. That's just a bad idea... by damn_registrars · · Score: 0, Troll

    Everyone knows republicans don't like science or scientists. I hope the data scientists are calling themselves something else to encourage the republicans to actually talk with them.

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    1. Re:That's just a bad idea... by iggymanz · · Score: 1, Troll

      you are funny, Republicans pushed big science funding for decades, Democrats kill it.

      I despise both parties, by the way, and generally don't vote at federal level for candidates from either one

    2. Re:That's just a bad idea... by NatasRevol · · Score: 1, Troll

      By big science, you mean weapons development.

      To the exclusion of everything else.

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  2. Re:This will hugely backfire... by Dimwit · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your average GOP voter strongly values their own privacy, but not the privacy of women, homosexuals, Muslims, or immigrants.

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