The win in South Carolina was great. But it's just a start.
All of us know that the opposition will just grow more determined and aggressive. And the smear emails will keep going and morphing.
I'd like to trace them: try to find their patterns and their origins. And I'd like to apply some recent techniques from computer science research on worm/virus propagation to do so.
What I need, though, is data. And that's why I'm turning to everyone here.
To begin with, please forward any smears you get to smearbank@gmail.com. This isn't limited to just Obama smears, but any smear emails circulating out there.
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So, the sort of data I need is simple. I just need to be forwarded as many Obama email smears as possible, so I can build a large database that I can start processing.
I can use my email address to collect this information, for starters. But how do I get folks to forward smears to me?
And any idea how I can get the campaign itself to give me access to the database of forwarded email smears that I'm sure they have? Do any of you have any contacts I could work? Because trying to get in touch with HQ is practically impossible.
And finally, any thoughts on other interesting datasets that might lend themselves to some computer science analysis? I'm looking forward to hearing what you all have to think.
This also applies for any Edwards, Clinton, or other smears in circulation. (I'm not aware of any right now, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.)