The Obama campaign harnessed to talent and enthusiasm of many internet techies to put together an internet infrastructure and strategies to win. Here's a video interview by Technology Review with one of the head technologists with scoop about how Obama's get-out-the-vote worked and what might happen in the future.

I think it might be possible that nonprofits will benefit from this burst of tech development for their own operations in the near future.

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