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applegrove

(118,696 posts)
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 06:31 PM Aug 2016

Donald Trump Campaign Hires the Firm Behind ‘Brexit’

Donald Trump Campaign Hires the Firm Behind ‘Brexit’

by Rosemary Rossi at the Wrap

http://www.thewrap.com/donald-trump-campaign-brexit-move/

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Donald Trump and his team have upped their game to win the race for the White House by hiring the company that got the Brexit message to millions, resulting in the split of Great Britain from the European Union.

Cambridge Analytica is a marketing film that targets voters (and potential donors) based on their unconscious psychological biases.

The strategic communications company also worked with former GOP candidates Ted Cruz, Ben Carson and the “Leave.EU” campaign in the United Kingdom. According to the Daily Beast, Cambridge Analytica “went after first-time voters and those who felt left out of the political process, the kinds of people that Trump was successful bringing to the polls in primary elections.”


Also Read: Donald Trump Does a 180 to Endorse Paul Ryan

The move toward a data-driven campaign — an idea that Trump labeled as “overrated” as recently as May — is another about-face for Trump’s campaign. It comes after Trump reversed himself by endorsing Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Friday after hinting that he wouldn’t.


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Donald Trump Campaign Hires the Firm Behind ‘Brexit’ (Original Post) applegrove Aug 2016 OP
Well don't know what good that will do. Alienate minorities of all kinds-check... MichiganVote Aug 2016 #1
 

MichiganVote

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1. Well don't know what good that will do. Alienate minorities of all kinds-check...
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 06:41 PM
Aug 2016

Alienate women-check
Alienate the military-check
Alienate military families-check
Alienate unions and union specific groups-check
Alienate his own party-check
Alienate independents-check
Alienate Sanders supporters-check
Alienate the youth vote-check
Alienate economic groups outside of low to very low income-check

So who's left to listen-a bunch of white guys apparently.

This is the kind of decision making that we would see in a Trump presidency. Fuck up and then hire somebody at taxpayers expense to mop up. This is EXACTLY what has been going on with the republicans and Snyder in particular in Michigan.

Seriously people-you don't want this. Its bad, bad, bad.


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