The Unmitigated Disaster Known As Project ORCA

[ksoze]

Interesting insight into the disastrous program which was supposed to help the republicans GOTV. This is how a businessman candidate shows his stuff by using an untested app at the last minute which fails miserably. Worth reading the comments at the end.

What is Project Orca? Well, this is what they told us:

Project ORCA is a massive undertaking – the Republican Party’s newest, unprecedented and most technologically advanced plan to win the 2012 presidential election.

Pretty much everything in that sentence is false. The "massive undertaking" is true, however. It would take a lot of planning, training and coordination to be done successfully (oh, we'll get to that in a second). This wasn't really the GOP's effort, it was Team Romney's. And perhaps "unprecedented" would fit if we're discussing failure.

More:
http://minx.cc/?post=334783

[valerief]

1. Order of Republican Caucasian Alliance. nt

[Melinda]

2. A 30,000 army strong of a disastrous unmitigated cluster-fuck. As the author said in his piece:

The bitter irony of this entire endeavor was that a supposedly small government candidate gutted the local structure of GOTV efforts in favor of a centralized, faceless organization in a far off place (in this case, their Boston headquarters). Wrap your head around that.

I'm on Twitter at @JohnEkdahl if you have any questions.

Indeed.

[OregonBlue]

3. Thank you. I read the whole article. It was a real hoot.

[KurtNYC]

4. this totally reminds me of an organization I am involved with

the Chairman will rattle off a bunch of software that we are all supposed to load, learn and use and it grows bigger by the week.

"Go to our Facebook page and check the Twitter feed for updates then set up a survey in Survey Monkey and then post the results to a shared document in Google docs that we will all mark up and edit...."

She never asks if anyone wants to use these and most of us don't use them. So damned little gets done. Beyond us, we are supposedly going to service a wide variety of people many of whom have no internet at home or who consider smart phones and Twitter to be frivolous time wastes for kids in their teens and 20s.

This article gives me a chance to innocently circulate an example of how wrong this kind of organizing can be.

[cui bono]

5. That pic is so sad. Do you really need to have it there?

That's all for now, haven't read article yet, must dry my eyes first.