Koch-backed activists use power of data in bid to oust Obama from White House

[Coyotl]

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/18/koch-backed-activists-americans-for-prosperity
Koch-backed activists use power of data in bid to oust Obama from White House
Americans for Prosperity building sophisticated digital tools to target swing-state moderates and spread anti-Obama message
Ed Pilkington in Hamilton, Ohio - Thursday 18 October 2012


Americans for Prosperity, the Tea Party-aligned group part-funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, is building a state-of-the-art digital ground operation in Ohio and other vital battleground states to spread its anti-Obama message to voters who could decide the outcome of the presidential election.

The group hopes that by creating a local army of activists equipped with sophisticated online micro-targeting tools it will increase its impact on moderate voters, nudging them towards a staunchly conservative position opposed to President Obama's economic and healthcare policies. Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is spending tens of millions of dollars developing its local strategy, already employing more than 200 permanent staff in 32 states.

Classified a non-profit "social welfare" organisation, AFP is legally obliged to project itself as a non-partisan campaign that neither endorses nor opposes candidates for public office. But there is no disguising its targets, nor their political nature.

In Ohio, volunteers are given a script which they follow when engaging voters. "President Obama took office three years ago and promised to fix our economy," they say, "yet unemployment is still high and our debt is up to $6tn."

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[C_U_L8R]

1. All the tools in the world aren't going to help

if your candidate is a tool.

[Coyotl]

3. With ‘Dreams From My Real Father,’ Have Obama Haters Hit Rock Bottom?

This is another tactic they are using in Ohio, sending this propaganda to swing voters.

With ‘Dreams From My Real Father,’ Have Obama Haters Hit Rock Bottom?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/28/with-dreams-from-my-real-father-have-obama-haters-hit-rock-bottom.html

After four years of invective, four years during which the right has called President Obama a traitor, a communist, a fraud, an affirmative-action case, a terrorist-sympathizer, and a tyrant, its shrillest voices have been reduced to the most primal insult of all. They are calling Obama’s mother a whore.....

MORE: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251145190

[Mutiny In Heaven]

2. They are the defacto rulers of the country if Romney wins.

Think America doesn't have a monarchy in that case? LOL, I have an entire catalogue of bridges to sell.

It will become essential for Democrats to defer to King Koch if they wish to stand a chance in the future; on economic policy, it will be an absolute necessity to go hard to the right of the GOP if it wishes to survive as a viable political party.