Silicon Valley Isn't Buying GOP's Data Plans
Amazing, I know, and yet true.
by Rod D. Martin
May 28, 2013
Politico reports that the incestuous, self-serving, utterly inept internet "strategy" the RNC has adopted for 2014 isn't playing well in Silicon Valley. Hard to imagine why not, given the money quote from the article: "But the Valley engineers who would build the platform say Boyce has been unwilling to engage with them — which the Obama campaign excelled at in 2012 — and is resistant to using anything the Obama campaign did as a model."
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
But let's be real here. This party leadership -- the fake one we elect at the RNC and the real one over at Karl Rove's Crossroads -- isn't interested in any solution that doesn't involve their getting 15% of the ad buy...and their buddies getting another 15%, and their buddies getting another 15%, and on and on till the end of time. Win? God forbid: that might mean new consultants horning in, or worse,…