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In the Interest of Fairness and Bi-Partisanship

On December 1, President Obama gave a speech outlining his new “surge” strategy for Afghanistan.  While there is considerable reason to wonder why it took the President so long to outline this new strategy and why he is insisting on setting a date certain for troop withdrawal, there is little doubt that most Republicans will at the end of the day support the President’s strategy.

So, in the interest of fairness to a Democratic President who has announced a plan that most Republicans will find acceptable (and many if not most Democrats will find unacceptable) I thought I would correct a line of attack that I saw emerge from the right last night...

White House Visitor Logs: Part 2

On the day before Thanksgiving the White House provided its latest update to their file of visitors: link.  You’ll recall that one month ago they released the first of this data, and TargetPoint was quick to take the opportunity to ply its trade and extract meaningful knowledge and insight from this dump of “dumb” data: link. 

This updated dataset is both wider and deeper, encompassing more records (2,096) over a longer period of time (Inauguration Day through August 31st)...

Time For An Alternative to PelosiCare

Based upon recent research conducted on the health care reform debate, TargetPoint's CEO, Alex Gage, penned an op-ed last week for Townhall.com.

The key point?  America is ready for health care reform – just not a sweeping re-creation of the entire system.

Some of the key data points are listed below, but we encourage you to read the whole thing here: http://bit.ly/5cwnTs

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MicroTargeting the 2009 Elections

Congratulations to the Christie campaign, the McDonnell campaign, the Republican National Committee, the Republican Governors Association, the legislative and municipal victors and to all those who worked tirelessly on the ground to make Election Day 2009 successful for Republicans.  TargetPoint was glad to be a part of some of those important victories and is looking forward to providing winning Republican campaigns with innovative tools for 2010...

White House Visitor Logs

Last Friday, the White House blog heralded “Transparency Like You’ve Never Seen Before” (http://bit.ly/3h4HFY) in which the first of an ongoing series of datasets containing the records of visitors to the White House were made available.  This dataset represents an amazing opportunity for TargetPoint, a firm that specializes in turning data into knowledge, to ply its trade and see what insight we can snatch from this data-dump...