TO BEAT CYBER WARFARE IN FUTURE ELECTIONS, GO GUERILLA -- Part 1 [View all]

[ancianita]

First: Because we know the goal is TO WIN, our focus could be on the 220 counties that voted for Obama in 2012 and did not vote Hillary in 2016. I learned all this here in DU. So I'm trying to put all this info together toward a winning vote model.

The Democratic Party admits that they have nothing -- nothing! -- that comes close to the Republican ground game that the Koch machine has built over forty years.

Kochs' machine focuses its spending on

1. academic influence (see Nancy McLean's book, Democracy In Chains for the institutional buildout)
2. Citizens United-based dark money (I can only think of OpenSecrets, etc. -- please help here)
3. suppression systems through fake cyberware like Crosscheck (specialized site explanations are best)
4. buying and promoting the best institutional trainees as GOP (Koch) machine candidates (many from religion-based law schools, right wing for profit law schools, foundations, etc.)
5. creating horse race, divisive scripts to distract from all the above, from political fearmongering radio (Armed Forces network, Levin, right wing communications networks like Sinclair, Channel One, et. al.) to Internet-TV ad buy.

With free horse race-tabloid-outrage AV coverage ...

Trump won 30 out of 50 states to Clinton’s 20 states.
He won 2,623 counties to her 489 counties.
There are 3,242 counties and county equivalents in the United States.

Trump won 220 counties that had voted for Obama in 2012.

Trump's turnout wasn't high, just high enough in WI, MI, PA, to get electoral college dudes for the technical knockout win.

Second, Dems can win those 220 counties back. They are key "base." When everyone who has registered to vote actually votes, results always go to Democrats.

Someone in the party's has got a list of those counties -- see Tom Perez and campaign operatives.
All the rest of us should know exactly where they are.
This party and the rest of us had better go find out what these voters want to motivate them to vote.
Koch has used money.

What Dems have is a People's track record. But money is now blasting their voices.

When the Dems can't match Koch's money, they'd better come up with A GUERRILLA MODEL.

The Guerrilla Model is laid out in Part 2.