http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/votercontactTraining
I'm in the middle of a debate tournament, so I don't have much time to write my thoughts about this new component of Obama's campaign. I think it's interesting, potentially dangerous, but astounding at the same time. Is this unprecedented???
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This campaign to create a form of a "community organizer" seems very interesting. Of course, since we know organizers don't have any "real responsibility," it may be interesting to see how effective this campaign will be. It seems that people will have to be extremely motivated to print off a call list on their own and call potential voters in their area.
I wonder just how many people would actually be willing to do that amount of work with little to no recognition or monetary reward. It seems to be a campaign though with little risk. Ask people to make calls for your campaign. If they don't, no harm no foul.
"The phonebanking tool provides you with lists of targeted voters in your community, a brief calling script, and an easy interface to enter your results. You can print off call lists and make calls offline, or you can make calls while at your computer."
"targeted voters" hmm, that sounds like micro-targeting. again, i'm totally ok with micro-targeting. i'm not so ok with data-mining, but if everyone else is doing it i want my candidate doing it too.
on data mining, perhapse we should have a discussion about what privacy rights mean today. is buying a dvd on the internet a private decision? is it ok to keep and sell records of that sort of thing?
we should talk more about data mining i think. my opinion is fluid right now.
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