re: How did Hillary know she would lose hours before the polls closed?

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The Republican Party has the same data and actually during voting gets nearly live info on who has voted and the feed phone banks the data to continue calling those who haven’t voted to GOTV.

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Voter registration data is used by campaigns, yes, but the Obama campaigns took it to another level. Their Get Out Vote software was the most sophisticated targeting effort ever, integrating publicly-available voter registration data with Google Maps API's and social media integration (much cooperation from Silicon Valley). There had never been anything like it. In 2012 the Romney Campaign wanted to do the same thing (Project Orca) but the RNC enlisted grifter cronies who basically just stole the money ($millions). On election day it failed spectacularly. To my knowledge no one was ever held accountable.



EDIT: here's a fun story on ORCA's failure: LINK