{"id":5087,"date":"2012-08-24T14:17:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T20:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5087"},"modified":"2012-08-24T14:17:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T20:17:43","slug":"mitt-romney-uses-secretive-data-mining-politico-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/mitt-romney-uses-secretive-data-mining-politico-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney uses secretive data-mining – POLITICO.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mitt Romney uses secretive data-mining – POLITICO.com<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Mitt Romney uses secretive data-mining<\/strong>
By: Associated Press
August 24, 2012 03:35 PM EDT <\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) – Building upon its fundraising prowess, Mitt Romney’s campaign began a secretive data-mining project this summer to trove through Americans’ personal information – including their purchasing history and church attendance – to identify new and likely wealthy donors, The Associated Press has learned. \u2026<\/p>\n

For Romney’s data-mining project, which began as early as June, the Republican candidate quietly turned to 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. \u2026<\/p>\n

High-dollar donors have been essential to Romney’s election effort, unlike Obama, who relies on more contributors giving smaller amounts.<\/font><\/p>\n

Romney and the GOP have out-fundraised Obama’s re-election effort for the past three months.<\/p>\n

The fate of the presidency may depend on who raises more money in the campaign, whose cost for the first time is approaching $2 billion. \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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