Not that I disagree, but in the interest of playing devil's advocate, where's this coming from? Is the reasoning evidence-based, or is it just stuff that "everyone knows"?
It's not too surprising to me that established political orgs like the DNC believe almost all the available leverage to be found in rallying the base or theatrics targeted at uninformed voters; that is after all what we observe them doing. But beliefs like that often turn out to have more to do with culture than the outside world. If the DNC is basing them on data that hasn't been widely disseminated, on the other hand, that could be surprising and useful.
Political science corroborating observed evidence; The polls barely moved at all during the entire 2012 cycle, including internal very-expansive-and-ultimately-accurate polls. I very much doubt this is a cultural-belief based thing - if anything, political operatives tended to believe they had more ability to influence results than reality would suggest.
Political organizations have algorithms to predict how an individual will vote, how likely they are to vote, and how likely they are to volunteer to work for a candidate. These algorithms are actually prett...
See this Newsroom clip.
Basically, their news network is trying to change the way political debates work by having the moderator force the candidates to answer the questions that are asked of them, not interrupt each other, justify arguments that are based on obvious falsehoods etc.
How big of a positive impact do you guys think that this would have on society?
My initial thoughts are that it would be huge. It would lead to better politicians, which would be a high level of action. The positive effects would trickle down into many aspects of our society.
The question then becomes, "can we make this happen?". I don't see a way right now, but the idea has enough upside to me that I keep it in the back of my mind in case I come up with a plausible way of implementing the change.
Thoughts?