I have seen evidence, from a number of polls, that "outsourcing" is THE issue this cycle. It can move numbers like nothing else, not even Iraq. I've seen it in polls for the House, for the Senate, for generic "Democratic Party".
So it is with much glee that I present the following story, courtesy of that liberal bastion -- PC World:
When the Republican Party clinched close gubernatorial races in Mississippi and Kentucky in 2003, it relied heavily on its Voter Vault database to get people to the voting booths. Though party officials are tight-lipped about what's inside the Vault, they've acknowledged it contains records on an estimated 168 million voters.
PC World has recently learned that the major development work on the Voter Vault was done in India. Though the RNC began work on a national database of voters in the mid-1990s, the Voter Vault wasn't ready to be put into the field until the 2002 elections. Two years prior to the 2002 elections, the RNC hired Advanced Custom Software (ACS) of Seattle to build a Web-based database to help campaign workers target likely Republican voters. According to information posted on Elance.com, an online directory of outsourcing firms, ACS subcontracted development of the database to Compulink Systems of Maharashtra, India.
The Democratic Party, which has its Demzilla database, did all its work on the good ol' U S of A.