[ekim68]

Originally Posted by ekim68

I think she should start impeachment proceedings against this administration immediately after getting into sessions. I think investigations with a new Justice Dept. are in order. If that's what she's considering, then more power to her..

[LANMaster]

This thread is formerly known as the Democrat progress thread.
So this article seems more than appropriate to place in here.


Howard (the hypocrite) Dean: DNC Uses Credit Card Data to Predict Votes


Democratic chair says analysts track personal spending to predict voting habits, claims Republicans pioneered tactic.

What’s in your wallet? Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean would like to know.

Dean and Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan were speakers at a luncheon at the National Press Club Nov. 5, where both reflected on what went right and wrong with their efforts during the 2008 election cycle.

Dean revealed his party used credit card data to predict voting outcomes. However, Democrats and the media have been highly critical of credit card companies that provide that data.

“We now can do what they can do,” Dean said. “We have your credit card data like they do. They’ve been for years doing something that we, until 2006, weren’t able to do. We can predict with 85 percent accuracy how you’re going to vote based on your credit card data without bothering to see what party you’re in – the Secretary of State’s office.”

“They’ve been doing it for a long time,” Dean said of Republicans. “No wonder we’ve been throwing rocks at the bottom of the well. These guys – we can argue about how well they run the country, but they certainly know how to run elections.”

Dean’s admission that his party is using credit card data in elections is curious because a plank in the Democratic Party’s 2008 platform vows to regulate that very instrument through a “Credit Card Bill of Rights”:

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[Knotbored]

I think we need more investigation into sports, the baseball ones were a lot of fun.
Congressional investigations into the cost of sports memoralbilia, cost of parking, hot dog prices-it could go on and on forever.

[bassetman]

Originally Posted by LANMaster

This thread is formerly known as the Democrat progress thread.
So this article seems more than appropriate to place in here.


Howard (the hypocrite) Dean: DNC Uses Credit Card Data to Predict Votes


Democratic chair says analysts track personal spending to predict voting habits, claims Republicans pioneered tactic.






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Face it Lan, your horse lost!


I edited your format, Basset.

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by bassetman

Face it Lan, your horse lost!

This has nothing to do with the Obama campaign. It has to do with the hypocrisy of the DNC Chairperson.

[poochee]

Originally Posted by LANMaster

This thread is formerly known as the Democrat progress thread.
So this article seems more than appropriate to place in here.

Howard (the hypocrite) Dean: DNC Uses Credit Card Data to Predict Votes

Democratic chair says analysts track personal spending to predict voting habits, claims Republicans pioneered tactic.



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Bottom line...The Dems have been studying the Rep Playbook and used some of it against them to win the election. I say, good show from these bright intelligent campaign handlers!

[Sarge]

Originally Posted by bassetman

Why let someone who campaigned against you party hold a party appointed position?

To show the dems dont hold grudges for starters and two is to show the democrats can cross party lines and be bi partisan.

[wacor]

Originally Posted by Sarge

To show the dems dont hold grudges for starters and two is to show the democrats can cross party lines and be bi partisan.

neither party will do that

both have dug in and are thoroughly entrenched

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by poochee

Bottom line...The Dems have been studying the Rep Playbook and used some of it against them to win the election. I say, good show from these bright intelligent campaign handlers!

But ... but ... but .... I thought the Democrats were all about the individuals' right to privacy??? So much so, that they SPECIFICALLY made credit card privacy part of the 2008 campaign platform!

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by Sarge

To show the dems dont hold grudges for starters and two is to show the democrats can cross party lines and be bi partisan.

Don't hold your breath.

[poochee]

Originally Posted by LANMaster

But ... but ... but .... I thought the Democrats were all about the individuals' right to privacy??? So much so, that they SPECIFICALLY made credit card privacy part of the 2008 campaign platform!

Sometimes you have to roll in the mud with opponents.

[Sarge]

Originally Posted by poochee

Sometimes you have to roll in the mud with opponents.

In other words...sometimes you have to be just as dirty as the enemy. How disappointing.
And before someone jumps on this, I am disappointed in BOTH parties, its just that some of you open yourself up to so much political hypocrisy its impossible to resist.

[poochee]

Originally Posted by Sarge

In other words...sometimes you have to be just as dirty as the enemy. How disappointing.
And before someone jumps on this, I am disappointed in BOTH parties, its just that some of you open yourself up to so much political hypocrisy its impossible to resist.

Don't ever run for a political office.

[poochee]

Originally Posted by Sarge

In other words...sometimes you have to be just as dirty as the enemy. How disappointing.
And before someone jumps on this, I am disappointed in BOTH parties, its just that some of you open yourself up to so much political hypocrisy its impossible to resist.

Don't ever run for a political office.

[CADude12]

Now, we can start the smears. Obama - lightweight president, world in crisis. Coming January 2009.