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...hotspots until approximately 1 a.m., when room parties are shut down and people are forced to take their fun elsewhere. If Harvard’s attitude to parties were more in line with that of Yale’s, the final clubs might be no more sociable than their Secret Society counterparts. In the meantime, being a member of a club bestows certain social privileges that are hard to ignore on a socially stunted campus like this one—including the right to vote on letting women into the clubs. If you are seriously concerned with gender equality...
...America Coming Together is the largest of the new political-advocacy organizations known as 527s for the section of the tax code that created them. On Election Day, Rosenthal expects to have 45,000 paid workers on the streets rounding up every Democrat they can find to vote. The secret, he insists, is staying in touch with those he has signed up. "You talk to people about issues they care about. You talk to them a lot," he says. "You get as close as you can to them...
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...
...direct-mail company, so he knows the value of a few good leads. "We don't say a lot about Voter Vault," notes Christine Iverson, press secretary for the Republican National Committee. "A lot of the information is strategic, and the less the Democrats know the better." Secret it may be, but Voter Vault caused a stir last month when it emerged that the Republicans had--wait for it--outsourced some of its construction to a bunch of programmers in Maharashtra, India...
...secret sauce for any 21st century political database is email addresses--there's no quicker or cheaper way to get out the vote than by e-communicating directly with supporters. In addition, there may be magazine-subscription records, membership rosters from organizations like the AARP ... who knows? The parties aren't saying. "We probably have more information about the average voter than they care for us to have," admits Robert Bennett, chairman of the Republican Party in Ohio...