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Winning through data mining?
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– News covered by Quincy Quarry News.

 

Republicans successfully use data mining to help get out the vote for GOP candidates in key midterm elections.

 

Normally, Democrats win midterms by rallying voters who are new or vote only in presidential years.

 

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Examining a vote closely
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In one of the first of surely many reviews by election wonks, however, it appears that Republicans stayed ahead — in conservative states at least — by mobilizing their own unreliable voters.

 

A key Republican operative told Yahoo News that getting “low propensity” voters — people Trump brought into the Republican Party who were not regular voters before 2016 — had become an “obsession” of GOP party officials because it is now the key for them to be competitive in a number of states. 

 

Source: In Georgia governor race, new voters helped Republican candidate more

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