Sentences with phrase «target voters more»
Masses of data about each voter's political tendencies - gathered through public sources and through campaign contact - allowed Obama for America (OFA) to target voters more precisely than ever before.
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«But I can't imagine more than two - thirds of voters in San Francisco thinking that our city government should be introducing measures that will cost local jobs and spitefully target one industry.»
Some news accounts indicate that his campaign stopped using the firm's data after the South Carolina primary in late February 2016, though federal campaign records show more than $ 670,000 in payments to the firm for «media / voter modeling» or «voter ID targeting / web service» in March and June, plus $ 218,000 for «media» and «digital service / web service.»
But if the ongoing investigations conclude that the Trump campaign did help Russia target voters, expect to hear more about Cambridge Analytica.
But Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina argues that targeting voters with ever more personalised messages will shrink the «public sphere», which Jürgen Habermas, a German philosopher, once defined as the basis of democracy.
There are good political and social reasons behind making pre-K available to everyone, including the benefits to all children of socioeconomic integration and the fact that middle - class voters are more likely to be invested in programs that aren't narrowly targeted at the poor.
Most digital political professionals will think of voter file / cookie - targeting or IP - targeted online ads when the word «addressable» comes up, but more and more cable and satellite TV providers can now direct ads at specific households based on demographic or voter data.
Often a more effective way to use a large budget is to work with a firm like DS Political that does voter - file targeted display ads.
Perhaps good, despite the fears of many naysayers — targeted messages (in theory at least) help to motivate voters to act, and a more - active citizenry is healthy for democracy in the long run.
Even before the final weekend push, for instance, Democrats had used the Voter Activation Network to target over 50 % more voter outreach than at the same point in the previous midterm campaign (though I was surprised it wasn't higher).
In the end, DSPolitical was able to reach more than 150,000 voters in key targeted constituencies with nearly 10 million pre-roll video and banner ad impressions.
Instead, they could target voters and potential donors more effectively using the information they gathered by actually running Facebook ads and measuring the results.
At one of this year's many data - focused Netroots Nation panels, former Obama data guru Ethan Roeder noted something about the effective use of voter - targeting technologies: that's it's less about the data itself, and more about creating a culture of letting the information in...
Second, the more optimistic one outlined by Peter Wielhouwer in the early 2000s, suggesting that more sophisticated targeting would also allow campaigns to identify more voters it makes sense to talk to and try to motivate, and thus expand the electorate as more people are turned out to vote.
First, the pessimistic one outlined by Marshall Ganz in the early 1990s, suggesting that ever more precise targeting of voters will narrow the electorate by leading campaigns to focus their efforts on fewer and fewer people leaving others outside the process.
The Trump campaign paid Cambridge Analytica more than $ 6 million to help it target voters through ads on Facebook.
Finding Edith Bunker Women who could be swayed to vote for Ms. Watson Coleman, the state's General Assembly majority leader from 2006 to 2009, were a key target, said Mr. Wilkins, suggesting that women who could be categorized as Reagan Democrats or «Archie Bunker Voters» were more persuadable than men in the district.
Whether the voters believe Labour or not is another matter, but I think the fact that the spokesman is someone who was a Government rebel on 90 days, and who has been a target of surveillance himself, make Labour's position that little bit more credible.
The Trump campaign paid Cambridge Analytica more than $ 6 million to target Facebook ads based on voter data it had collected in the run - up to the election, according to Federal Election Commission records cited by Reuters.
And it will be no different this fall, when each of the party's presidential nominees — with vastly more resources at their disposal — target specific voter blocs over the Supreme Court in many of the same ways the Senate campaigns will.
The leadership's strategy is to register and canvas more voters in target seats, banking on increased turnout to flip new marginals that were long thought to be beyond Corbyn's reach.
This appealled to more target voters than sex education proposal — 43 % — but was also the suggestion that repelled the most people; 18 % said it would make them less likely to vote Tory.
In Lib Dem target seats Labour voters were far more likely to vote tactically against the Conservatives than against the Liberals by a margin of about 4 - 1.
If more races end up as close as Iowa — 8 votes separating Romney and Rick Santorum — quality targeting of voter contact could be decisive.
There are some complications because some 2012 voters have died in the intervening four years and been replaced by younger voters who tend to be more Democratic, but life tables can be used to adjust the 2012 vote targets to reflect differential mortality.
Labour's drive to register new voters ahead of the election has not had an impact in other targets - the number of voters registered in Newcastle - under - Lyme, a key Tory target, has actually fallen by more than 2,000 since 2015.
* Barack Obama is showing that his pledge to broaden the traditional playing field is more than just rhetoric, airing his first ad of the general election — a 60 - second commercial re-introducing him to voters — in 18 states, including states like Alaska, North Carolina and Georgia that have been long left off of Democratic target lists at the presidential level.
But on election day, it will still let the Tories target marginal voters in must - win seats more precisely than ever before.»
«The Tories were advancing further into Labour territory but weren't defending their own marginals,» said Sam Jeffers, the co-founder of Who Targets Me, which tracked more than 7,000 political Facebook adverts sent to nearly 12,000 voters.
More welfare spending, based on the reversal of Tory cuts that seem to be fairly popular amongst the sort of voters Labour wants to target?
However, another recent poll found that when prompted to consider the possibility of increased taxes to fund more early care programs, voters favored targeted preschool over universal programs.
One might think that the same voters who wanted to reform school districts would also want to reform the school finance behemoth — assuming they understood that 66 might make school finance more equitable, targeted and transparent.
But targeting small groups of the public is less appealing to our politicians who are far more interested in targeting large amounts of voters.
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As The New York Times reported on Saturday, that is what motivated the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to collect data from more than 50 million Facebook users, without their consent, to build its own behavioral models to target potential voters in various political campaigns.
EPIC said that «It has become increasingly clear that even as we are asked to give up our privacy, companies have become ever more secretive about how they profile and target voters.»
Prasad's remarks came in the wake of reports that Cambridge Analytica, a Britain - based consulting firm, improperly obtained information on more than 50 million Facebook users to target U.S. voters in the 2016 presidential election.
These advertisements, which targeted voters with divisive political content, added even more evidence of Russia's attempts to meddle with the election.
He claims it works about as well as more traditional voter - targeting methods based on demographics like race, age, and gender.
And now, thanks to a whistleblower and two stunning reports in the Observer and the New York Times, we know that one of those developers siphoned data on more than 50 million Facebook users and shared them with the Trump campaign's voter targeting firm, Cambridge Analytica — a company that has bragged it has psychological profiles on 230 million American voters, which it uses to target people online with emotionally precise digital messaging to influence elections.
On this week's If Then, Slate's April Glaser and Will Oremus dissect the latest fallout from the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal, wherein the profile data of more than 50 million Facebook users was obtained and allegedly used by Donald Trump's online voter - targeting firm.
Some news accounts indicate that his campaign stopped using the firm's data after the South Carolina primary in late February 2016, though federal campaign records show more than $ 670,000 in payments to the firm for «media / voter modeling» or «voter ID targeting / web service» in March and June, plus $ 218,000 for «media» and «digital service / web service.»
That reportedly included «suck [ing] out the entire social graph» — an individual's network of friends on Facebook — in a bid to target more and more potential voters through friends» friends on social media.
More importantly, is this data actually as useful in persuading voters as the targeting firms would have us believe?
Cambridge Analytica, which also worked on Donald Trump's 2016 bid for president, used the personal information of millions of users who never gave their permission to help campaigns more effectively target voters.
Those reports detailed how Facebook allowed for data on more than 50 million user profiles to be harvested and then passed to Cambridge Analytica, which ran voter - targeting operations for both Ted Cruz's and then Donald Trump's presidential campaigns.
«Ads targeted using profiles generated from individual voters» stated interests are more successful in shifting attitudes according to Online Privacy Foundation
As The New York Times reported on Saturday, that is what motivated the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to collect data from more than 50 million Facebook users, without their consent, to build its own behavioral models to target potential voters in various political campaigns.
That data may then have been used for «psychographic» profile and to target US voters more precisely with political ads, though this is not clear.
It's alleged Cambridge Analytica harvested personal information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without permission to build systems to target US voters with political advertisements.