Inside Romney's IT clusterf*uck

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Friday November 09, 2012 · 3:15 PM PST

2012/11/09 · 15:15

This article is a fascinating insight one of the major blunders of the Romney campaign.

We won this election for lots of reason, but GOTV was the biggest one. It looks like the Romney campaign seriously screwed up what was meant to be the centerpiece of their GOTV strategy, a web-based data app to help volunteers identify and get in touch with republican voters who hadn't gotten to the polls yet. Amusingly, the failure is basically one of IT management, and is probably familiar to many folks here. I've seen screw ups like this before, though the scale of the consequences are a bit more serious than anything I've been involved with (thankfully).

It's hard to know how this would've affected the race had it worked as expected, but it should be a reminder to us that superior ideas and message are nothing in comparison to good, competent leadership and smooth execution. I guess there's a lesson there about the desirability of CEO experience in running an organization, too.

We're gonna lose

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Wednesday June 13, 2012 · 8:20 PM PDT

2012/06/13 · 20:20

It was fun watching the clown show that was the GOP primary, no doubt; but now that the real election season is getting underway, it should be starting to become apparent to all but the most wildly deluded among us how this election is gonna shake out - we're gonna lose.

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Palin's personal email hacked - UPDATED

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 10:53 AM PDT

2008/09/17 · 10:53

Apparently, someone's hacked Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo email and released it to WikiLeaks.

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Monday September 15, 2008 · 2:36 PM PDT

2008/09/15 · 14:36

This is both disappointing and par for the course:

A suite of 25 patents for technology developed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center will be put up for sale at a live intellectual property auction being held in October by Ocean Tomo Auctions LLC in Chicago.

The sale, which will include rights to signal processing, GPS for spacecraft and sensor technologies, is the first auction under a partnership announced earlier this month between Goddard’s Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP) and Ocean Tomo Federal Services LLC. Ocean Tomo provides a marketplace for intellectual property, which NASA wants to leverage in commercializing its technology.

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Thursday June 05, 2008 · 11:09 AM PDT

2008/06/05 · 11:09

Come on. There's so much stuff about John McCain that could serve as legitimate grounds for discussion.

Do we really have to mock the color of the man's teeth?

drmonkey

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Wednesday January 25, 2006 · 7:57 AM PST

2006/01/25 · 07:57

Republican gubernatiorial candidate Star Locke is proposing scrapping the existing property tax system in Texas; as a replacement for it:

Locke said he favors instituting a $10,000 per-abortion tax on abortion service providers, a 50-percent tax on violent video games and a 10-percent tax on soft drinks with added sugar to fund state government.(source: Amarillo Globe News)

A $10,000 per abortion tax? Wouldn't that effectively make abortion unavailable to the poor? I realize he's just a candiate, and running against a well known incumbent, but what the fuck?

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Tuesday December 20, 2005 · 3:03 PM PST

2005/12/20 · 15:03

There's already a great diary highlighting some of the editorial page responses to the revelation that President Bush authorized the warrantless eavesdropping on American citizens. But editorial pages are sometimes disconnected from actual people.

So, from the people you've spoken to about this story, what is are the reactions you see? I think the reactions of Conservative or not generally political people would be particular interesting.

What are you hearing?

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Inside Romney's IT clusterf*uck

We're gonna lose

Palin's personal email hacked - UPDATED

NASA patents to be auctioned

Please take down the "teeth" post

Texas gubernatorial candidate proposes HUGE tax on abortion

How's it playing with average people? (with poll!)