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Early morning, angry and motivated dig on Project Ivy
This is the operating & voter contact model those jerks are using to STEAL THE ELECTIONS RIGHT NOW.
Republicans have GOT to get up to speed, or they're done.
http://swampland.time.com/2014/02/24/project-ivy-democrats-taking-obama-technology-down-ballot/
Docs: https://www.scribd.com/document/209059091/DNC-Project-Ivy
http://www.epolitics.com/2015/09/23/what-happened-to-project-ivy/
https://blog.ngpvan.com/news/icymi-votebuilder-foundation-dncs-new-project-ivy
"NGP VAN is the leading technology provider to Democratic and progressive campaigns and organizations, offering clients an integrated platform of the best fundraising, organizing, and digital products. NGP VAN is credited widely as being a critical piece of the Democratic and progressive technology edge.
NGP VAN counts thousands of campaigns and organizations amongst its clients, including President Obama’s reelection, all the national Democratic committees, every Democratic Senator, most of the Democrats in the U.S. House, and thousands of Democratic campaigns, PACs and non-profits, and other organizations.
Publications like
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https://www.businessinsider.com/the-democratic-partys-tech-startup-2014-2?op=1
" A fact sheet distributed by the DNC Tuesday identified the "four tools and strategies at the core of Project Ivy" — a "voter file and data warehouse," "analytics infrastructure," "field and marketing tools," and "training and fostering a culture that cultivates further technological innovations."
"The collective goal of these is simple — to take what we've learned and the tools built for the 2012 Obama Campaign and scale them so every Democratic campaign up and down the ballot can deliver our winning message to more voters, more effectively," the fact sheet said. "The DNC will invest millions of dollars in Project Ivy in 2014, and has dozens of full time staff dedicated to building, testing and implementing cutting edge technology to benefit campaigns across the country."
https://www.campaignsandelections.com/campaign-insider/ngp-van-touts-dnc-s-project-ivy
"The GOP this month launched Para Bellum Labs, its incubator project designed to help Republicans close the so-called technology gap. But the party's recent efforts drew ridicule from unnamed DNC sources. “They haven’t been able to reverse engineer what we did three years ago, let alone what we’ll do this year,” one DNC official taunted the GOP in Time.
The DNC said Project Ivy, which will have "dozens" of staff, will "take what we've learned and the tools built for the 2012 Obama Campaign and scale them so every Democratic campaign up and down the ballot can deliver [the party's message] more effectively." But making the Obama tools scaleable is easier said than done.
“That’s one of the big things we’re trying to do—scalability,” Matthew Holleque, a statistician who worked for Obama last year before co-founding BlueLabs, a data analytics firm, recently told C&E. “The Obama campaign was a massive organization and was a great place for a lot of innovation and testing and coming up with best practices. Now the challenge that we’re facing is how to bring that down to races of different sizes—statewide races, congressional races, even local races.”
According Dan Wagner, who founded Civis Analytics after going through both cycles with Obama, the question of scalability has already been answered, and that’s the reason why Obama-style data analytics is gaining more adherents. “In 2010, if you wanted analytics you needed lots of money, you needed a ton of resources,” he says. “In 2012, if you wanted [what the Obama campaign had] you needed to pay lots of money.”
Now, the technology is significantly cheaper, he says, pointing to a server that cost $20,000 in 2009, which now costs $100 on Amazon.com.
“The big thing this does is it lowers the barriers to entry for smaller candidates,” says Wagner."