Berto Jongman: Alexis C. Mardrigal on Obama’s Technical Team – Soul of a New [Chicago] Machine

Extreme detail. When the Nerds Go Marching In Alexis C. Madrigal The Atlantic, 16 November 2012 EXTRACTS: . . . . . . . . . “The real innovation in 2012 is that we had world-class technologists inside a campaign,” Slaby told me. “The traditional technology stuff inside campaigns had not been at the same …

Mini-Me: Obama Fears of Coup Put FBI Into Emails of Multiple Flag Officers? How Many Walking the Plank?

Huh? Phi Beta Iota:  Sorcha Fall is a discredited source still read in Europe that has a gift for connecting dots in strange ways that often make real sense.  We do not believe that a coup was planned or that there was a serious plan to assassinate Romney and slip Petraeus in at the last …

Jackie Salit: Obama & The Independents — Comment by Robert Steele on Why Independents — and Paulistas and Greens — Remain Irrelevant

Obama and Independents: The Micro, the Macro and the Forest by Jacqueline Salit The Obama campaign team did everything right. That’s the consensus among journalists, consultants, and the political class. I’ve watched some of them literally swoon over maps of the 50 states showing how the President’s campaign surgically identified pockets of “blue voters”, marooned …

Robert Steele: How Obama’s Team Melded Big Data to Raise Money & Win Votes, Defeating the “Nine Ways” and “Twelve Amigos”

TIME has provided an utterly spectacular story on how the Obama team melded big data.  As I finished the article, I could not help but wonder how much more useful the secret intelligence world would be, to so many more people, if it could do this for the rest of the world — with the …

Tom Atlee: The Shift NOT Made by Obama – From Two to Many

Post-election: A collective shift from divided to wise Dear friends, President Obama said in his 2012 victory speech that “we are not as divided as our politics suggests”.  He also argued that we are more united than our politics makes us think we are.  Finally, he hinted that we are more diverse than our politics …

Mini-Me: Karl Rove’s Final Prediction – Romney by 32 Electoral College Votes – Obama Wins Big – The Fix Was In But Hispanic Voters Rule

UPDATE:  Obama won — “nine ways” was not enough to repress the Hispanic vote, 71% for Obama. Huh? Karl Rove’s final Romney-Obama prediction: A 285-253 Electoral College squeaker Andrew Malcolm Investors.com, 6 November 2012 EXTRACT: Rove’s final Electoral College prediction: “Without twelve toss up states (MN, NV, CO, IA, WI, MI, OH, PA, NH, VA, …

James A. Lyons: Admiral, Former PACFLT, Calls for Obama to “Come Clean” on Benghazi

Retired Pacific Fleet commander calls for Obama to “come clean” on Benghazi John Hayward Human Events, 30 October 2012 Retired Admiral James A. Lyons, former commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, published a tough editorial in the Washington Times on Sunday, calling for President Obama to “come clean on what happened in Benghazi.”  Lyons describes …