GIS and Presidential Politics
I caught this post http://tinyurl.com/6k7k3z on the Geographic Jobs Clearinghouse (www.gjc.org) a few days ago. I have always assumed that larger political campaign's had already harnessed the power of GIS but this post has me second guessing this assumption.
And it looks like Obama for America has chosen ESRI as their GIS of choice?
Chris McClain
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It makes me wonder -- what could this (or any other) campaign do with GIS *now*? It is clearly too little too late to harness the analytical power of GIS this late in the campaign. I would have run that GIS job opening announcement a year ago. Back when they were building the foreign policy team.
"A Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy" wrote The New York Times last Friday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/us/politics/18advisers.html?scp=1&sq=obama%20300&st=cse
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