importance my registered partisanship my own richard partisanship you clearly see who their client was it didn t measure me as a democrat or republican just a very unlikely republican and you can also see sort of the model itself is in the interest of sort of finding. conservative voters especially conservative voters who might be registered as a democrat but are actually going to vote republican and so being able to go down to the zip code level and then reus sociate that to all other election districts allows you to geo target. so precisely and that s how you re going to move the needle in u.s. elections i think if americans knew this was happening and happening internationally they would be outraged. funded by robert moore. and headed by steve benen cambridge analytical offered its services to candidate donald
importance my registered partisanship my unreligious or partisanship you clearly see who their client was it didn t measure me as a democrat or republican just a very unlikely republican and you can also see sort of the model itself is in the interest of sort of finding. conservative voters especially conservative voters who might be registered as a democrat but are actually going to vote republican so being able to go down to the zip code level and then real so seat that to all other election districts allows you to geo target. so precisely and that s how you re going to move the needle in u.s. elections i think if americans knew this was happening and happening internationally they would be outraged. funded by robert mercer and headed by steve benen cambridge analytical offered its services to candidate donald
that power maybe ever again and viktor orban did get another shot. his party won two-thirds of the sleets in parliament. and with that power they decided to rewrite the rules. that i rewrote the constitution. among other things they cut in half the number of seats in the parliament. they redrew the boundaries of the election districts in the country all at once. viktor viktor orban said his way was much simpler. it made imimpossible to remove him from power. support for viktor orban s party shrunk, they dropped from 53% to 44% of the vote but wouldn t you know it, thanks to these new simpler rules, even though viktor orban s party got less sport and fewer votes, they kept
and the timing was important because every ten years when they do the census, state legislators get to redraw election districts. in the lead-up to the 2010 midterm election, red map starting raising money to flip districts, to flip legislative seats, to approach that whole problem systematically. they raised a little over $30 million and that s a lot of money. it s not a ton of money for a political project. but here s the genius. instead of pumping that $30 million into high-profile senate and congressional districts and all of the big races, instead, they put all of that money into states where the legislators would have the most control over the redistricting process that was going to happen after the census. they focused scientifically on finding flipable seats in key legislatures around the country and because they were obscure races, they had to spend very little money to flip these seats. they flipped a bunch of these seemingly obscure seats in
they do the census, state legislators get to redraw election districts. in the lead-up to the 2010 midterm election, red map starting raising money to flip districts, to flip legislative seats, to approach that whole problem systematically. they raised a little over $30 million and that s a lot of money. it s not a ton of money for a political project. but here s the genius. instead of pumping that $30 million into high-profile senate and congressional districts and all of the big races, instead, they put all of that money into states where the legislators would have the most control over the redistricting process that was going to happen after the census. they focused scientifically on finding flipable seats in key legislatures around the country and because they were obscure races, they had to spend very little money to flip these seats. they flipped a bunch of these seemingly obscure seats in places like new york where they ended up losing control at the new york state senate and al