OBAMA USING MASSIVE SECRET DATA-MINING TO COERCE VOTERS
CHICAGO — On the sixth floor of a sleek office building here, more than 150 techies are quietly peeling back the layers of your life. They know what you read and where you shop, what kind of work you do and who your friends are. They also know who your mother voted for in the last election. The depth and breadth of the Obama campaign’s 2012 digital operation from data mining to online organizing reaches so far beyond anything politics has ever seen, experts maintain, that it could change the outcome of the next presidential election. It makes the president’s much-heralded 2008 social media juggernaut  which raised half billion dollars and revolutionized politics look like cavemen with stone tablets. Nicco Mele, a Harvard professor and social media guru said, “The fabric of our public and political space is shifting. If the Obama campaign can combine its data  mining efforts with the way people now live their lives online, a new kind of political engagement  and political persuasion  is possible.”
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