The company, which burst onto the American political scene in 2012, boasts of its ability to assemble so - called psychographic profiles of
American voters based on five dominant personality traits — openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism — and to target them with uniquely crafted messages based on their unconscious biases.
Ms. Clarke, like Mr. Jeffries, has a core African -
American voter base that sides with Mr. Obama.
Not exact matches
No matter the audience (the Massachusetts electorate of 2002, the Republican party
base of this summer's primaries, or the average
American swing
voter this fall) and no matter the topic (abortion, health care, gun control, the tax code), Romney seeks first of all to sound agreeable.
Some political observers say Republican overtures to Israel and to Jewish leaders are aimed more at
American evangelical
voters, a key part of the GOP
base, than they are at Jews.
Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about
Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible
voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible
Americans voted at all.
Absent a major terrorist attack in the United States, or a spate of smaller domestic attacks, or escalating weekly
American military casualties, my suspicion is that in the 2016 election,
voters will weigh foreign policy
based on their feelings about the economy.
Trump's Republican Party spoke to two groups of
American voters: the far right
base of the GOP, and to the near two - thirds of
Americans who feel the country is heading in the «wrong direction» — many of these will include America's working families, steelworkers and coalminers, bridge - builders and road - pavers, retail workers and restaurant staff to whom the socio - economic forces of globalization and stagnant wages have been woefully unkind.
As I wrote before the election, speaking with
Americans gave me the impression that
voter turnout could put Trump in the White House; it seemed that an increase in white, working class Republican votes together with a decrease in Democrat
voters from parts of President Obama's support
base could tip the result Trump's way.
The two African -
American pols share the same
base of
voters in Central Brooklyn, particularly in their native neighborhood of Crown Heights.
The London -
based company worked on Facebook ads with President Donald Trump during his election campaign in 2016, where it provided details on
American voters.
This is a clear attempt by Clinton to rally her
base of African
American and Latino
voters, on which she has been relying heavily throughout the presidential contest to date.
With less than a week remaining before New York's April 19 primary, Clinton criss - crossed New York City yesterday, trying to rally a key part of her
base: African -
American voters.
Carvin is in favor of a woman's right to choose abortion and voted for Barack Obama, but hopes to «broaden the
base of the Republican Party» by reaching out to Hispanic and African -
American voters.
The NBC / Wall Street Journal poll — which gives Obama and Vice President Joe Biden a small lead over Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan — shows Obama has a massive lead over his Republican rival in the key political
base of African -
American voters, NBCNews.com reported.
The campaign hopes to capitalize on Bush's lack of popularity, the changing demographics in Northern Virginia, high turnout — particularly among younger
voters and African
Americans — and a volunteer
base that delivered a big win in the Democratic primary in February.
And he declared his ambitions to crack the mayor's
base of African -
American and Latino
voters in the Democratic primary with an ultra-liberal message and the $ 40,000 currently in his campaign account.
And in New Orleans, a substantial group of African -
American voters believed that the financial harm done by firing thousands of teachers after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 undermined the economic
base of the black community, hurting students more than the school improvements helped them.
The survey, conducted for the Washington -
based American Council on Education, a higher education organization, found that 54 percent of 1,000 registered
voters believe students should have to take more math and science courses, and only 31 percent of those polled believe that math and science classes offered to college students not majoring in those fields are «very relevant» to life after graduation.
But the lessons of Los Angeles and other big cities where corporatization once reigned show perhaps a more profound strain of
American education localism
based on largely independent citizen school boards and
voters resisting federalization and private interests.
While
American politics has degenerated into campaigns of limited value,
based on little more than meanness, hate and hyperbole, elections should be about meaningful discussion and debate between candidates who recognize the importance of providing
voters with the information they need to make informed decisions.
Their cries could form the
basis of a new populist movement, rooted in poorer and middle - class
voters who seethe at their political leaders» inattention to their problems and lament an
American dream gone awry.
Zuckerberg on Wednesday promised tougher steps to restrict developers» access to user information, his first response to allegations that London -
based Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed data to build profiles on
American voters that were later used to help elect U.S. President Donald Trump in 2016.
The New York Times and the U.K. -
based Observer / Guardian reported over the weekend that Facebook has suspended the account of Cambridge Analytica, the firm founded by Steve Bannon with funding from famed Republican donor Robert Mercer with the purpose of building «tools that could identify the personalities of
American voters and influence their behavior,» according to the Times report.
The world's largest social media network is facing government scrutiny in Europe and the United States about a whistleblower's allegations that London -
based consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed user information to build profiles on
American voters that were later used to help elect US President Donald Trump in 2016.
Recent reports have revealed how Cambridge Analytica, a U.K. -
based company owned by an enigmatic billionaire and led at the time by candidate Donald Trump's key adviser Steve Bannon, used psychographic data from Facebook to profile
American voters in the months before the 2016 presidential election.
UK -
based consultancy company Cambridge Analytica has been recently embroiled in a scandal as it allegedly got unauthorized access to millions of Facebook profiles in order to build profiles of
American voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election in the US.