Sentences with phrase «target swing voters»

According to the reports in Guardian Observer and New York Times, Facebook profiles of nearly 50 million users were illegally harvested by the political firm and helped to create algorithms and models to successfully target swing voters with false messages and political ads.

It will target swing voters aged 35 and older, local grassroots activists and those who have engaged with the topic of «health care» on social media.

The priority should be to target swing voters rather than planning alliances with other parties.

Facebook has faced a global outcry and sharp questions about its privacy safeguards after reports revealed that an independent researcher passed information covering some 50m users to the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which were then used by Donald Trump's campaign team to target swing voters in the 2016 presidential election.

It has also been revealed that using the sophisticated data tools, the firm targeted swing voters with just the right messages.

According to information posted on CA's website, its client won a landslide victory in the elections, achieving over 90 percent of total seats targeted by CA through in - depth electoral analysis and targeting swing voters.

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Some of these ads targeted voters in swing states, like Michigan and Wisconsin.

The agencies said in a 2017 report that Russia engaged in a targeted effort to influence US voters through propaganda and other means, in order to swing the presidential election in Trump's favor.

BC Liberal operative Bonney was hired to be communications director for the government's multiculturalism branch and tasked to carry out the party plan to target ethnic voters in swing ridings for the 2013 election.

Seats would be won by convincing voters across the constituency, not just targeting action at a few swing voters.

«Democrats can use [expanded background checks] to talk to swing voters in a very targeted way, to suburban mothers, and when you are targeting like that you've really got options,» one national Democratic strategist said.

Swing Left is targeting 64 House seats and has activated local, self - organized teams across the country to begin canvassing their respective swing districts — including knocking on doors to survey constituents» concerns, registering new voters at farmers markets and recruiting locals to build up volunteer capacity inside the targeted distrSwing Left is targeting 64 House seats and has activated local, self - organized teams across the country to begin canvassing their respective swing districts — including knocking on doors to survey constituents» concerns, registering new voters at farmers markets and recruiting locals to build up volunteer capacity inside the targeted distrswing districts — including knocking on doors to survey constituents» concerns, registering new voters at farmers markets and recruiting locals to build up volunteer capacity inside the targeted districts.

But they added targeted communication on the issue with white suburban swing voters, who strategists say support measures such as expanded background checks, could help drive turnout with that segment of the electorate.

The 1990s electoral tactic of announcing drastic future expenditure targets and forcing Labour to accept or reject them is designed for an electoral battleground for the swing voters in the marginal seats in contention between Labour and the Conservatives, almost all of which are in England.

In the final weeks before Election Day, a scary statistic emerged from the databases at Barack Obama's Chicago headquarters: half the campaign's targeted swing - state voters under age 29 had no listed phone number.

For instance, a campaign might aim cookie - targeted ads at its base voters or identified swing voters, while also running geotargeted Facebook Ads to hit particular demographics in the district and Google Ads on key search terms (the candidates» names, for instance).

By the time he embarked on his star - crossed 1994 re-election campaign, he'd become a target of national conservatives - and of suburban swing voters in New York, who'd grown convinced that he was too eager to spend their money and too hesitant to punish criminals.

The data, crunched by Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, comes from a survey of 600 likely 2018 voters over the phone in 30 targeted swing districts, and an additional oversample of 300 Democratic - leaning surge voters.

Ever since he started helping Tory candidates in target seats - when Michael Howard was Tory leader - he has become focused on ensuring resources and messages are targeted on the swing voters in the swing seats.

Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor who bankrolled Cambridge Analytica — the data consulting firm at the center of Facebook's latest privacy scandal — also was the largest donor to a group that targeted swing - state voters with anti-Muslim ads during the 2016 U.S. elections.

The raw data that the firm accessed also allowed it to use algorithms to target those who were identified as swing voters by creating just the right messages for them.