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Democrats Buying Millions of Cell Phone NumbersJanuary 29, 2020 at 12:17 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 89 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2020/01/29/democrats-buying-millions-of-cell-phone-numbers/
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The DNC is dropping six figures to acquire tens of millions of cellphone numbers through a variety of vendors, the Daily Beast reports.
Its plan is to boost Democratic voter outreach, fundraising, and data collection ahead of a bruising 2020 presidential campaign and the host of down-ballot races that will reshape American politics next year.
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But then:
Trumps Digital Advantage Is Breathtaking
January 29, 2020 at 10:11 am EST By Taegan Goddard 98 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2020/01/29/trumps-digital-advantage-is-breathtaking/
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Thomas Edsall: If you attend an evangelical or a Catholic Church, a womens rights march or a political rally of any kind, especially in a seriously contested state, the odds are that your cellphone ID number, home address, partisan affiliation and the identifying information of the people around you will be provided by geofencing marketers to campaigns, lobbyists and other interest groups.
With increasing speed, digital technology is transforming politics, constantly providing novel ways to target specific individuals, to get the unregistered registered, to turn out marginal voters, to persuade the undecided and to suppress support for the opposition.
Democrats and Republicans agree that the Trump campaign is far ahead of the Democratic Party in the use of this technology, capitalizing on its substantial investment during the 2016 election and benefiting from an uninterrupted high-tech drive since then.
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applegrove
(118,677 posts)on them. I was looking for the novel ways Dems were going to fight Republicans this year.
TygrBright
(20,760 posts)And I will STILL vote blue, no matter who.
firmly,
Bright
hlthe2b
(102,290 posts)I marched in the national gun control marches a couple of years ago along with Columbine and Parkland survivors and took a sponsored bus to Denver so I have to think that is why my email address became so widely shared. (I have a confidential voting registration, so I know that is not how they got it).
It isn't that I begrudge them contacting me at all, but multiple times daily? I know I could block these texts, but I haven't quite reached that level of intolerance.
Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)This is all well and good, but the Trump will defeat whatever Democrat is on the ticket if our side doesn't also have a high tech social media campaign that is using micro ads designed to target individual users at way smaller sizes than a normal advertising segment.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Okee-dokee...