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Silicon Valley Isn't Buying GOP's Data Plans

Amazing, I know, and yet true.

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Rod D. Martin
May 28, 2013
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Politico reports that Karl Rove’s involvement hasn’t helped with Silicon Valley programmers.

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,…

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