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...been on both sides of the debate. During the last election, I worked on the Nader campaign in New Jersey, planning strategy, organizing support and mobilizing voters. After eight years of Clinton and moderate Democratic policies, it really did seem like Al Gore and George W. Bush were similar, and that the two political parties were colliding together ideologically at an ever more rapid rate. The fact that there was a presidential candidate with views I shared, namely Ralph Nader, only made the deal sweeter...
...candidate one that takes away from much-needed votes for the Democrats. This was a point underscored by Professor Sunshine Hillygus, who introduced Nader at the IOP, when she commented that her empirical research illustrated that most of the voters who voted for Nader would have otherwise voted for Gore...
Howard Dean didn't get it. Al Gore had no clue. The high-tech secret weapon of this election isn't blogging or viral e-mail or any other sexy buzzwords. It's something mundane and under the radar and totally unsexy: data. Both the Democrats and the Republicans have amassed vast secret databases of information about voters, which they jealously guard on the simple theory that the more you know about people, the easier it is to get their vote...
...Democrats--the party of would-be overnerd Al Gore--were staring at a data gap. All they had was a few tens of thousands of e-mail addresses stored on a computer so obsolete its monitor was green. So they hired a small firm called Plus Three to build them a database of their very own, which they named Demzilla. Voter Vault and Demzilla currently hold about 165 million entries each...
Supporters of 36 argue that the proposed system would more accurately represent the will of the people. Presidential elections create the illusion that there are solid Republican and solid Democratic states. But in the 2000 race, in red Colorado, Al Gore won the support of more than 42% of the voters. Bush won 41% in blue California. If every state adopted 36's rules, those supporters' votes would count for something. "It could make California and New York worth a Republican effort," says James Gimpel, an Electoral College expert at the University of Maryland. "Wouldn't it be nice...