https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/11/19/obamas-big-data-victory/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 05:22:00 -0400<![CDATA[Big data give incumbents a big advantage, which seems to have surprised the Romney team. The Obama campaign has used cookies to track its supporters online since the 2008 election. It spent the past 18 months creating a new, unified database, factoring in some 80 pieces of information about each person, from age, race and sex to voting history. (The campaign denied reports that it tracked visits to pornography sites in its outreach algorithms.) The Romney campaign says it tried to match the Obama campaign&#8217;s collection and analysis of data but had to start from scratch and had just seven months after the primaries.]]>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:25:57 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/11/19/obamas-big-data-victory-n280453