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Re:Bernie’s Army of Coders by monocasa on Thursday February 18, 2016 @07:11PM (#11130491)
Can you point to an app that swung an election more than $100M worth of advertisements? Like, I know this is hacker news, home of "there's no limit to what you can achieve with hard work and VC money!", but if we're being honest with ourselves could even a single unicorn class app company swing a presidential election if it put it's mind to it?
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Re:Bernie’s Army of Coders by bmelton on Thursday February 18, 2016 @07:21PM (#11130531)
Yes.

https://www.ngpvan.com/

I've worked on similar. An app that helps organize volunteers, sort and categorize mailing list responses, build street-maps for volunteers to walk to get the most value out of their canvasing time is worth FAR more than even a really good TV ad.

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Re:Bernie’s Army of Coders by SilasX on Thursday February 18, 2016 @09:03PM (#11131027)
Nader Trader, almost. It nearly swung the election to Gore in 2000 by giving him votes in swing states. (And some would claim he should have been counted as the winner because of Florida.)
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