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Well, there’s even better news than the 6611 person gate count from Saturday night in Tulsa.
I mean, besides how there weren’t race riots like drumpf expected, or maybe hoped for, to give him yet another distraction for his rabid base; and how there weren’t sprawling overflow crowds begging for the pearls of wisdom hidden in their dear leader’s word salad extravaganza.
Here’s what the campaign — not drumpf, who clearly didn’t get the adrenaline fix he depended on from the nearly-nonextant, very low-energy attendance — really wanted: Data. Names, addresses, email and phone contact info for potential GOP donors:
But if you know anything about data analysis, you know the biggest tragedy of the Tulsa turnout from the point of view of the Trump campaign is that, for all intents and purposes, the rally’s signup sheet didn’t give them donors’ contact information so they could go shilling for bucks for the GOP.
The data is junk — and might even be dangerous because so many of those tickets for empty seats were sold to overseas or underage purchasers.
Why is the data junk? Why is this bad news for the campaign? Well not only didn’t Parscale pull in a million new targets for begging emails to finance four more years, there’s a better-than-even chance at least some of those K-Pop Stans and Imgur users who signed up for multiple tickets they never meant to use were underage, and that’s a Federal crime:
The kind of data mining ops the campaign meant to get out of this isn’t free, by any means. You have to pay for data analysis if you’re not Zuckerberg, and Trump’s campaign is no exception to that rule. So that “million” requests, out of which about 6200 tickets actually went to people who showed up, really didn’t give them data they could use to beg for more money going forward.
Full disclosure: I are not a data analyst and nor do I play one on TV. My IT experience is nearly 30 years old and mostly based on word-processing work, but what I do know from working in IAQ is that you need good seals on your sample containers and a chain of custody you can verify in court to have your testimony be allowed; I’ve done surveillance as a cop and as a public health epidemiology tech, and what I can say is the data they got out of this … wouldn’t get ‘em a warrant to pick up used chewing gum off the sidewalk where the subject missed pitching it into the trash.
So many of the RSVPs not only didn’t show, but were “backed up” with contact info that’s the equivalent of a $10 burn phone in a criminal investigation, including email addys like trump.sucks.putins.balls.@gmail.com. Lots of the Tiktok kids were filling in the phone numbers using fake Google Voice numbers, too, apparently. See the thread here, which inspired me to laugh harder than I have since November 2016 last night: