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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 42015 08-24-2012 10:45 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney's success in raising hundreds of millions of dollars in the costliest presidential race ever can be traced in part to a secretive data-mining project that sifts through Americans' personal information - including their purchasing history and church attendance - to identify new and likely, wealthy donors, The Associated Press has learned.

For the data-mining project, the Republican candidate has quietly employed since at least June a little-known but successful analytics firm that previously performed marketing work for a colleague tied to Bain & Co., the management-consulting firm that Romney once led.

The head of Buxton Co. of Fort Worth, Texas, chief executive Tom Buxton, confirmed to the AP his company's efforts to help Romney identify rich and previously untapped Republican donors across the country. The Romney campaign declined to discuss on the record its work with Buxton or the project's overall success.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display...ta-mining/

**Ahriman**

Well he's certainly not trying to win.

Is he now...

Anon

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 116455 08-24-2012 10:50 PM

They all play their assigned roles. Nothing surprising about this at all. End

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 116517 08-24-2012 10:52 PM

Ahriman Wrote:

Well he's certainly not trying to win.

Is he now...

was there ever a question of winning? lol

of course he's data mining, most such people are deeply addicted to it. what he's doing to pinpoint campaign donors is also what televangelists do to find donors. its an old trick, just people are finally getting caught doing it.

**born again democrat**

bain @ company , hmmmmm now where did i hear the name before????? oh yeah , its batmans arch nemisis , you know the physco who is after batman , and all the good he represents.

**Rager** lop guest User ID: 113404 08-24-2012 11:05 PM

ROMNEY WOULDN'T DO THAT! HE'S A SAINT! YOU LIBTARDS AND YOUR JIVE TALK, MUMBO JUMBO LIBERAL PROPAGANDA.

LIBERAL NONSENSE, WE ARE LEGION, WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED!

OBAMA SUCKS! OBAMA SUCKS YOU LIBERALS! OBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAA SUCKS!!!

sincerely yours,
Sheep

**Ahriman**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Ahriman Wrote:
Well he's certainly not trying to win.

Is he now...

was there ever a question of winning? lol

of course he's data mining, most such people are deeply addicted to it. what he's doing to pinpoint campaign donors is also what televangelists do to find donors. its an old trick, just people are finally getting caught doing it.

It's more than datamining. They are stoking the obvious.

What he said today for instance, 'I know I was born here.'

Give me a fracking break.

Anon

**dig** · (This post was last modified: 08-24-2012 11:24 PM by dig.)

Hundreds of millions of dollars are required for potus.

That should tell you something right here.

Broken system is broken.

Synthetic reproduction.

With all the many hundreds of thousands of species that have gone extinct, humans are evolving into extinctionists.

Every generation has gotten prettier cos they know that's what we need to survive.

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bit off topic but we can get it back on 'pretty' quick.

they walking around here with woolen caps on their heads in the middle of summer, just to make a fashion statement, look how cool I am.

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With that hat buddy, not very.
You look like an idiot to me.

But hey, nice hair dood. kiss kiss

**Charlie the Tuna** lop guest User ID: 31897 08-24-2012 11:19 PM

Tell him to just data mine himself.

**Lost Fisherman**

Obama has access to an even more effective data mining operation.

**Katz**

LoP Guest Wrote:

data-mining project that sifts through Americans' personal information - including their purchasing history and church attendance - to identify new and likely, wealthy donors

I'm going to be far from that list, that's for sure! Cheer

**Luvapottamus**

He should get a refund. They called and asked me for $250.

Jptdknpa

When I said "absolutely not," they asked "do you mind if I ask why you're reluctant to donate to the man who will save the economy?"

I said, "Sure, he's a vulture fund asshole, he ain't gonna save shit."

chuckle

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 104194 08-25-2012 12:27 AM

where's the secret?

**hurchel** · **hurchel** Subscriber User ID: 3859 08-25-2012 12:36 AM **Posts: 1,944**

Luvapottamus Wrote:

He should get a refund. They called and asked me for $250.

When I said "absolutely not," they asked "do you mind if I ask why you're reluctant to donate to the man who will save the economy?"

I said, "Sure, he's a vulture fund asshole, he ain't gonna save shit."

**spɹɐʍoɔ snoɯʎuouɐ**