Thread by @donwill94062871

The GOP loss in 2012 was blamed on a catastrophic failure of the vaunted 'app' the GOP used

The GOP data is still horrible.
For example

I am a precinct chair.
1. When I became precinct chair in 2021 and saw my neighborhood data.
I knew immediately that it was flawed

I live in a neighborhood of 70 homes. I know most of my neighbors in a dark red area.

The list for my neighborhood included 10% of people that I knew personally had moved out more than 5 years earlier.
And did not include people I knew were Conservative that had moved in.

2. Fast forward to 2022. The list was purged, somewhat. But I knew it was not up to date because I know my neighbors.

Which is why I am precinct chair.

Nobody has knocked on our doors ever bc we are dark red. We had multiple knockers, including me and my team in 2022

3. The weekend b4 the runoff I received a new app. Campaign Sidekick. I was told that it had updated data to knock on doors of those that had NOT voted yet

I dutifully went out over the weekend and election day to knock.

Everyone I spoke to had early voted.

They didnt understand why I was at their door.

OTOH. Warnocks campaign had up to date data. And they sent out drivers to DeKalb and Fulton to increase their ED turnout.

If we dont have good data we will lose.

Why is our data operation so bad? That is the question.

I know @Peoples_Pundit has talked about this failure in data management.

We have to step up our game.

I was discussing this failure of data at an an event in Dec by an RNC staffer that they have 2 week data lags.
Not acceptable.

And BTW. When I received my first precinct list and I went up my chain of command and said I know the data from my neighborhood is garbage. They told me, yes we know it is bad. There is nothing we can do about it.