https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/07/inside-the-secret-world-of-data-crunchers-who-helped-obama-win/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 08:01:14 -0400<![CDATA[The new megafile didn’t just tell the campaign how to find voters and get their attention; it also allowed the number crunchers to run tests predicting which types of people would be persuaded by certain kinds of appeals. Call lists in field offices, for instance, didn’t just list names and numbers; they also ranked names in order of their persuadability, with the campaign’s most important priorities first. About 75% of the determining factors were basics like age, sex, race, neighborhood and voting record. Consumer data about voters helped round out the picture. “We could [predict] people who were going to give online. We could model people who were going to give through mail. We could model volunteers,” said one of the senior advisers about the predictive profiles built by the data. “In the end, modeling became something way bigger for us in ’12 than in ’08 because it made our time more efficient.”]]>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:50:10 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/11/07/inside-the-secret-world-of-data-crunchers-who-helped-obama-win-n97275