Connell, Rove and the GOP Boys, Positioned for McCain?

[DogPoundPup]

"Why is it important to rehash what Connell did in 2000 Florida and 2004 Ohio? Because those very same key elements for potential election theft are firmly in place within the McCain campaign for 2008."

http://thejournal.epluribusmedia.net/index.php/features/1-latest-news/137-connell

The filing of “document hold” notices targeting Karl Rove and the Chamber of Commerce announced on July 17 by Ohio Attorney Cliff Arnebeck has focused attention on Mike Connell, CEO of New Media Communications (and a key figure in several other IT companies), as instrumental in significant irregularities of the Ohio vote in the 2004 presidential election.

Mike Connell built the non-partisan State of Ohio Election Night Results reporting system which, in real time, tracked the final Ohio vote tallies for its citizens. Yet that very same Mike Connell, in what could appear to be a conflict of interest, also created and ran the 2004 George Bush and Ken Blackwell websites as well as the Ohio state GOP site.

Mike Connell: IT Guru

Mike Connell is the RNC's IT guru connected to many websites of Ohio, Florida and the Federal governments. He is now believed to have been under the direction of Karl Rove during the contested elections of 2000 and 2004. In the current cycle, Karl Rove joined John McCain's campaign in March 2008 while Connell reportedly began laying his groundwork for it after August 2006. If allegations are true, what happened in 2000 and 2004 is merely the warm up act to what’s in store for 2008.

In 2006, oddly enough, a Computerworld reporter0 sought out Mike Connell -- rather than Karl Rove -- to inquire into the GOP's electoral outlook. It was Connell (not Rove) who described how substantially the GOP was counting on microtargeting to make the difference in a difficult year. Two years earlier, Connell was the strategist who summarized "A Republican Perspective: What Worked Online in the 2004 U.S. Elections"in a presentation slidedeck. In that analysis, he emphasized email list development, microtargeting and the big data push of 2004, 72-hour programs, and special GOTV emails detailed even to the level of providing driving directions to the polls.

Finally, in this context, it's worth noting that halfway through the Florida recount debacle, in an interview with Connell and his wife, the interviewer made crystal clear how strictly partisan were the CEOs of Connell's two companies:

The company (New Media Communications) will not work for Democrats. The Connells said the couple's political ideals and passions motivate their creativity.

"It's important to believe in what you do," Mrs. Connell said. "It's part of our job to be involved."1

That's the point! Niche Marketing Ekes Out a Sliver of Victory

The agenda of any election campaign is to win your candidate "one vote more than 50 percent."

Connell freely offers his campaign promise for the 2000 election: "There are things we will be doing on election day that haven't even been dreamt of yet." 2

If you join the expertise of a network engineer to the skills of a niche demographic analyst who slices and dices political consumer markets for targeted messaging on the Internet, you get a Mike Connell.

Mr. Connell said his belief in the candidates and causes for which New Media works is an important part of the company's success. Being a trusted partisan also gets Mr. Connell invited to campaign strategy sessions.

''To do our job, we need to have a seat at the table,'' he said

... Mr. Connell was reluctant to discuss whether he communicates often with Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's top strategist, but said, ''Good ideas will go as high as they have to to get approval.'' 3

And, if you've given Mike Connell access to the tabulation database of a swing state's votes, in realtime, then you've got a specialist who understands what the margin of error looks like when it walks out of the voting booth.
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[midnight]

1. What state are these co. based out of?

[DogPoundPup]

2. The District of Columbia is my best guess

Afterall the GOP/W.H. under lil bush has it's OWN IP ... these guys are capable of about anything!