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BriefsDemocrats' Data Mining Stirs an Intraparty BattleWith Private Effort on Voter Information, Ickes and Soros Challenge Dean and DNC By Thomas B. Edsall, Washington Post, March 8, 2006; Page A01 A group of well-connected Democrats led by a former top aide to Bill Clinton is raising millions of dollars to start a private firm that plans to compile huge amounts of data on Americans to identify Democratic voters and blunt what has been a clear Republican lead in using technology for political advantage. The effort by Harold Ickes, a deputy chief of staff in the Clinton White House and an adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), is prompting intense behind-the-scenes debate in Democratic circles. Officials at the Democratic National Committee think that creating a modern database is their job, and they say that a competing for-profit entity could divert energy and money that should instead be invested with the national party. Here is the rest of the story. |
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