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FWD.us: GOP Voters To Be Targeted By Data Scientists
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?
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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Probably the same way you get the working poor and the struggling middle class to vote Republican and against their own best interests.
your average GOP voter aggressively hates immigration. (unless they are a farmer or a ranch owner living in their castle overseeing the serfs.. then they love it. (as long as their kids get to go to a private school, of course.)
Your average GOP voter strongly values their own privacy, but not the privacy of women, homosexuals, Muslims, or immigrants.
...but it's being eaten...by some...Linux or something...
1. You can't have immigration reform without amnesty. It wouldn't be ilegal after reform now would it?
2. Illegals don't have to be paid a mimumum wage. America desperately needs to raise the minumum wage, something Republcians are against.
3. No it doesn't. Rich businessmen want the least amount of workers their business requires.
4. No they don't. Nobody likes higher taxes. Democrats want people to be trated like actual people, and not second class citizens. Republicans want cheap slave labor.
5. Most Republicans are low information voters, that's why they vote Republican.
ahhh, the good old strawman approach. It works well with the logic impaired and illiterate crowd.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.