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2016 Postmortem

sfwriter

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2. Their story is microtargeting...

Reply to anamandujano (Original post)

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 11:46 PM

Dec 2016

Using the data analytics of brietbart and fake news web traffic, plus commercial data inputs from consumer behavior and voting behavior, they mapped out voters that hadn't voted and were likely to vote for trump to "shake things up."

I need to see some details or better interviews before I buy it, but it at least seems plausible and explains why pollsters missed it.

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months ago, Steve Bannon knew precisely which states Donald Trump would flip [View all] anamandujano Dec 2016 OP

Would you expect him to say "we're going to lose all the swing states mythology Dec 2016 #1

Their story is microtargeting... sfwriter Dec 2016 #2

some nonpartisan observers predicted it around the same time gejohnston Dec 2016 #3