Yet another contributor to Romney's epic fail: Bad IT!

[backscatter712]

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/inside-team-romneys-whale-of-an-it-meltdown/

When you look at the Obama campaign, they have a well oiled machine. Anyone here who's volunteered for Obama or other Dems has probably gotten to know VAN/VoteBuilder, and this year, when I went canvassing, I was given an iPod with a MiniVAN app to track my work. The Obama campaign is religious about its IT, it uses technologies like microtargeting to maximize its campaign effectiveness, and well, they won.

Look at Romney's campaign. They put together a smartphone app named Orca, which they gave to volunteers to track Romney voters on Election Day. Epic fail - they didn't bother to test their system before they deployed it, people were given wrong passwords, their servers weren't even close to being up to the demand, Comcast cut off Orca traffic in areas because they thought it was a DDOS. They fell on their face.

Schadenfreudelicious, I know!

[AlGoreRhythms]

1. Rmoney

lost in almost every aspect of this election.

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. You'll want to read this one as well.

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This is a report from one of Willard's volunteers who works in Application/Web Development who describes in painful detail the massive IT fail.

(Twitter shortened link - goes to the Ace of Spades website)

Can't believe what this dude went through to try to make this happen, but I applaud his tenacity. I would have given up at "print a 60 page .pdf at Kinkos the night before the election"

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/334783.php

[kestrel91316]

3. THAT is one of the most deliciously funny things I have ever read!

[TrogL]

4. My God, what were they thinking?

Orca doesn't even sound like a "smartphone app", it was merely a website.

A single web server with no load balancer?

A single app server without failover or clustering?

No redirector?? It's a single line of code!!!