but according to anonymous orca had little to do with getting out the vote and everything to do with the rigging the vote as they claim we coded and created what we call the great oz of targeted password protected firewall that we tested and refined over the past weeks we place this code on more than one of the digital tunnels and their destination that carl's not so smart worker bees plan to use on election night anonymous alleges that these digital tunnels were leading to servers in three different states not just ohio the release goes on to detail what happened on election night as rhodes operatives attempted to access these tunnels carls speared karl's spirit orca whale was breached rotting with a strong stench across his playground unable to be resuscitated we watched his car as weak corruptors repeatedly tried to penetrate the great oz these children of his were at a loss how many times and how many passwords did they try exactly one hundred and five so might this have really been the reason for karl rove's shock on election night under the guise of a sophisticated get out the

he got swooped out of the water by the two orcas. they weren't friendly.s scooting his way on to the rocks to get out of their way. >> he was spearfishing for their food. they are like dude come on man. him scooting out of there looks like a seal. >> that looks like more whale food. >> apparently they don't like the competition. look at this dog. this dog is playing in the water close to the shore and these orcas come close to the dog. watch the dog. he is like okay i'm leaving. >> i'm surprised they didn't swallow this dog up. check that out again. the dog is like okay. get out of there. >> he is scared, too. the dog knows. >> how does that whale not immediately eat that dog? >> the orca is a mammal. maybe it did a little butt sniff and knew it was a dog. that didn't cross my mind but really interesting that that dog didn't scoot all the way out. he got to where he can stand and was like i was just swimming. i didn't mean to come in your territory. i didn't peafá on your lawn. two videos and a simple game to play. the difference and win money. >>> and a l

project orca is a massive understand taking. the newest unprecedented and most tech logically advanced plan to win the 2012 presidential election. pretty much everything in that sentence is false, this person keeps writing. and he said, the bitter iron any of this entire endeavor was that a supposedly small government candidate gutted the local structure of get out the vote efforts in favor of a centralized faceless organizations. in this case, their boston headquarters. wrap your head around that. karl rove whose failure to win victories at the helm of the cross roads had this defense on tuesday. >> he succeeded by suppressing the vote, by saying to people, you play not like who i am and i know you can't bring yourself to vote for me, but i'm going to paint this other guy as simply a rich guy who only cares about himself. >> remember the team romney and the republicans outspent team obama the democrats in the last three months of this campaign. actually in the entire campaign. >>> while president obama is already getting knee d

it's called project orca. it relies on 34,000 volunteers in swing states.report on one of them. iowa. they are training poll watchers to, quote, be on the lookout for anyone who tries to vote without a photo i.d. but there's a little problem with that. there is no photo i.d. law in iowa. that means you don't need a photo i.d. to vote. check out the training video made specifically for iowa. >> there may be an instance where the voter fails to show an i.d. and they are still permitted to vote. if you see this, alert the team so they can handle the team and you can get back to handling voters. >> alert the legal team so they can handle the problem. why? you don't need a photo i.d. in iowa. after the video was posted, the romney campaign scrubbed the original voting video and released it. so why would the romney campaign train poll watchers in key states with information that could disrupt the voting process? hmm. i guess i just answered my own question. joining me now is scott who broke the story and joe madison, nationally syndicated radio host. thank you fo

why is it project orca? it turns out that the obama campaign earlier had project narwahl.lso a kind of whale. this was data money, something different. guess what? orca prey on and eat narwahl so advantage romney. [ laughter ] >> bret: do you have any animal stories you can bring? >> i love that! >> my sense about this is simple. we're looking at a national race for all intents and purposes tied. a set of polls that suggest obama is leading in most pol polls. president obama will win and that is what people think. that is the conventionm wisdom. a number of polls has large number of democrats in the sample. more democrats in some cases than turned out by percentage on election day four years ago. which was a big year for democrats. they don't expect to have as big a year. the polls are troubling. now, it would be unprecedented for this many polls reflecting a similar outcome to be wrong. which is why people are reluctant to draw a conclusio conclusion. >> the democrats out the and they always have the early voting. is it enough for the hard totals to counteract enthusiasm

kind of a tailspin for him, not just the comments about gifts and so on, but the thriving subculture orca, the get out of the vote effort. makes anybody who thinks only media bias made romney lose, but his own technological incompetence. >> and arguments on what the party needs to do in order to survive. >> right, the party needs to dump the tea party and needs to reinvent itself. you know, the party is going do to do all of this after a while because i presume that the party wants to win. >> i'm shocked, shocked, isn't anybody else, the media would have been biased to obama? >> and the presidential candidate since nixon have had the press against nem, they've found a way to overcome it and that was romney's major failing, he didn't overcome what was obvious going in. >> jon: all right. next on news watch, momentum this is america. we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and en treats day after day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] one pill each mor

system, because the orca is the only thing that hunts the narwhal, as it went belly up on the beach, obama campaign system worked. the day after the election the "new york times" reported, quote, the power of this operation stunned mr. romney's aids on election nature as they saw voters they never knew existed. it is one thing to say are you going to do it. it is another thing to get out there and do it, said brian jones, a senior adviser. at the end of the day the obama campaign's get out the vote registered 1.8 million new voters by knocking on doors and registered another 1.1 million through online campaigns including a groundbreaking facebook app that deserves a special word because it genuinely might reshape how campaigns run going forward. michael shearer writes in the final weeks before election day, a scary statistic emerged from the databases at the chicago headquarters. half the campaign's targeted swing state voters under age 29 had no listed phone number. they lived in the cellular shadows effectively immune to traditional get out the vote efforts. this facebook app was t

a california group says the whales are part of a larger orca population worldwide. the government has a year to decide. >>> next, ongoing standoff breaking news we continue to follow between police and main with a gun on treasure island. the impact on dozens who cannot get home to treasure island. >>> the important court date for an accused vallejo cop

kind of a tailspin for him, not just the comments about gifts and so on, but the thriving subculture orcat out of the vote effort. makes anybody who thinks only media bias made romney lose, but his own technological incompetence. >> and arguments on what the party needs to do in order to survive. >> right, the party needs to dump the tea party and needs to reinvent itself. you know, the party is going do to do all of this after a while because i presume that the party wants to win. >> i'm shocked, shocked, isn't anybody else, the media would have been biased to obama? >> and the presidential candidate since nixon have had the press against nem, they've found a way to overcome it and that was romney's major failing, he didn't overcome what was obvious going in. >> jon: all right. next on news watch, momentum >>> as i kid i spent all my time in jersey shore and northern part of the state come 60 miles across. everybody in the middle part of my stated goes to the beach. so, i was kind of raised on the shore. >> jon: that is vice president joe biden speaking after getting a firsthand view of

. >> orca spectacular success. get out the vote thing. good everything. good. perfect.he told the senator the rnc planned to set up a special team to analyze what the obama team did well. here's a tip. one, won in a landslide. won. that's what he did. can save them a lot of money as a whole team. >> by the way tom hartman -- >> stephanie: what did he do well? everything. this group calls anonymous who looks as though they harpooned orca. >> stephanie: this was on -- who knows. but yeah, that would be it. >> that's a little hard to prove. >> i don't know. it is looking like they're -- >> or the republicans could have been completely incompetent when it comes to i. t. issues like they've demonstrated over and over. >> they weren't competent in 2004. >> stephanie: the romney transition web site looked spectacular. they put a lot of time for that. >> it was good for amercia. >> i think i blame it on incompetence. >> stephanie: allison in atlanta. >> caller: yes. >> stephanie: hello. >> caller: hi, stephanie. you guys make me laugh for talking about skeeter. >> stephanie: po

tom: there was this orca. some sort of new super high-tech thing that i would get a note of who voted and who hadn't selected run over to the persons house, the whole thing was a miserable failure, did not work, nobody could access it. >> they were relying on people to take it upon themselves to get their neighbor to vote and they needed at least 200,000 people person to person going door to door and talk about why mitt romney was the better choice and they failed at doing that. tom: is to see you, thank you very much. here is the good news, republicans are trying to stop your taxes from climbing. here's the bad news, that could mean you will pay even more. i will explain next. for many, nexium helps relieve heartburn symptoms caused by acid reflux disease. osteoporosis-related bone fractures and low magnesium levels have been seen with nexium. possible se effects include headache, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. other serious stomach conditions may still exist. talk to your doctor about nexium. tom: the g.o.p.

they started noticing embossed with orca on election day that while their turnout was good, the otherch better. that is why they lost the election. >> gretchen: let's do some other headlines for you now for tuesday. you probably seen his name hundreds of times on your computer screen. but the founder of the world's most famous antivirus company, john mcafee wanted for murder. police in belize want to question him about the shooting death his neighbor. the two had been at odds after fall filed a complaint against mcafe, for firing guns. it's said he was arrested on gun charges. >>> he wanted to blow up the home of former president george w. bush. in a few hours, he could be locked up for the rest of his life. a judge will sentence the saudi man in a texas courtroom today. a jury convicted him in june for targeting the former president's home and power plants in 2011. >>> speculation growing, senator john kerry will become the new secretary of defense. according to the "washington post," president obama may ask him to replace leon panetta. it's unlikely because pianette -- it's believed

behind me is project orca going on. we can communicate with people on the ground and get real time information about polling. there's a lot of momentum. a lot of enthusiasm and we're excited as we watch like everyone as. the candidates are out for one more last round of campaigning. so we'll be excited to come back and enjoy a victory this evening. >> in speaking with robert gibs from the obama campaign, we know the president is doing a couple interviews today but then he will watch the results come in with his family. governor romney on the other hand is in those battleground states this morning. pennsylvania, ohio. what's the message today on this final day? >> well, the message is first of all voters do have a choice and this past four years, it's been an indication we can't afford four more years. we need real recovery. and real change. we need somebody that has real leadership. big vision that will bring this country together. but also kick start this economy. we've had a community organizer. time for a business le

tom: there was this orca.ome sort of new super high-tech thing that i would get a note of who voted and who hadn't selected run over to the persons house, the whole thing was a miserable failure, did not work, nobody could access it. >> they were relying on people to take it upon themselves to get their neighbor to vote and they needed at least 200,000 people person to person going door to door and talk about why mitt romney was the better choice and they failed at doing that. tom: is to see you, thank you very much. here is the good news, republicans are trying to stop your taxes from climbing. here's the bad news, that could mean you will pay even more. i will explain next. with the spark cash card from capital one, sven gets great rewards for his small business! how does this thing work? oh, i like it! [ garth ] sven's small business earns 2% cash back on every purche, everday! woo-hoo!!! so that's ten security gators, right? put them on my spark card! why settle for less? testing hot tar... great sinesses

it does look like the orca get out the boat looked like a beach whale according to some reports. the other -- a lot of white voters who could have been there for him were not. and then the other thing is, yes, in these places like virginia, florida, colorado, hispanic voters turn out among minority voters and younger voters and women build up a fire wall that he would not have otherwise have had. we have to deal with that the fact is that we need to put folks speak to that community who might be hispanic but are really really great messengers. for instance, marco rubio one of them who sells conservatism really well. in addition i think the republic party has been bad about going straight to those communities. >> laura: go to the people. >> this is where we agree. it's hard to scale. it might not get you a bunch of voters. >> takes a while. cost you a lot of money and time you have got to get in there and try. >> laura: i was thinking of barack obama themself. in 2010. when the democrats were handed this big defeat, right? tea party really was resurgent and so forth. barack obama

the campaign -- did you hear about this project orca -- >> oh, yeah. >> stephanie: a massive undertakinghanie: somebody said orca is lying on a beach with a harpoon in it. [ applause ] [ laughter ] >> stephanie: someone made a good point, money ball election 2012 has nate silver destroying punditry. those who relied on data numbers, arithmetic, nate silver, did well. money ball has come to punditry. >> nick silver did get his start in las vegas casinos. >> stephanie: they are always like he is just a left guy -- and we're like, no he is a numbers guy. >> exactly. >> probabilities. >> stephanie: his numbers were skewed they said. then came the actual voting. silver got all 50 states right. down to his last-minute prediction that florida would be a vertical tie. the reason i put faith in him is because he has been historically the most accurate pollster out there. >> and he had genuine confidence. >> yeah. numbers are right, you'll see. >> stephanie: exactly. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: george will for cast -- >> george will what? >> george won't. [ buzzer ] >> dick morris -- [ overlapping

the romney campaign they did just whispering to hillary, they did project orca. they should have called it project shamu. they spent all the time building this on the ground or whatever but they didn't do it in the beginning. they didn't organize states in the way they should have, in a way that the obama campaign did and the romney campaign said they were full time. >> there are some folks who said, hillary, was it that was it that the candidates themselves was not a good candidate was it that the candidate himself was not conservative enough, was it that the candidate himself was perfectly conservative enough but somehow just couldn't galvanize people? >> i think we're going to hear for the next several days a lot of complaining from republicans about the romney campaign. about how they didn't do this right, they didn't do that right. you know, i think fundamentally, it goes back to the point you said. the republican party is not aligned with the future demographic of this country right now. and the country knows that. and so you can't really -- you can't chang

director, gail gitcho, about the campaign's micro-targeting "get out the vote" effort, called the orca project, named for the killer whale. find that video online. >> ifill: coming up, we'll have much more on the end to the campaign, including the final push in ohio; state of the race analysis from rothenberg, page, and kohut; voter access to polling places, and initiatives on the ballot; plus, the slow recovery after the storm, and a day in the life of a hard-hit brooklyn neighborhood. but first, with the other news of the day, here's hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: the violence in syria swept up a new group today. fiting raged near a palestinian refugee camp in southern damascus. activists said palestinian radicals supporting the syrian government were battling other palestinians. elsewhere in the capital, a car packed with explosives detonated in a main square, killing at least 11 people. the blast heavily damaged nearby buildings, and littered the streets with charred debris. and in the central province of hama, a suicide car bomb killed at least 50 syrian soldiers and gunmen. acros

we have a follow-up to margaret warner's story about project orca, the romney campaign's ssive t-out-thvote effort. there were some glitches, as she reports. find that on "the rundown." and jeff talks to a member of the broadway hit "war horse" about bringing to life a seven- foot puppet on stage every night. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. judy. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. on monday, we'll look at the loss of field records from the afghan and iraq wars, making it harder to award benefits to veterans and harder for historians to document years of combat. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. "washington week" can be seen later this evening on most pbs stations. we'll see you online, and again here monday evening. have a nice weekend. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> music is a universal language. but when i was in an accident, i was worried the healthcare system spoke a language all its own. with united healthcare, i got help that treat my life, information on my phone, connec

romney campaign, however, did have a computer-based modelling system like the obama campaign, called orca. >> like the whale and it failed by all accounts. it didn't do what it was supposed to do on election day which was to get, to find out who was voting and who wasn't so they could get the supporters out to make sure that those people were voting. >> and the romney campaign did put a lot of resources into that system. and unfortunately for that side, it crashed. a lot of volunteers went home. they couldn't get the information about identifying voters. and this was supposed to be its answer to the restauranted obama ground game, the president's tea that he had spent a couple years putting in place. coming back to this question of digital spending, if you go to the next graphic. look at the increase from 2008 when the president, then candidate obama sent $16 million and zooming up to 47 million dollars for 2012. >> and 2008 was supposed to be the social media campaign. and look at it now. it's continuing. and there are some questions as to whether or not 2016 will be another social media

. >> stephanie: because they were listening to orca. >> right.l government but it's actually strategically smart on their part because if it is a success, they are continue with it and take it over if it's a failure they can blame it on the federal government. >> stephanie: yeah the obama administration obviously had wanted them to build them, right, so they would have an incentive to make them work, but this way they can scapegoat in case things go wrong. again, didn't we used to try to govern this country in a way that was good for everybody? it's all still politics even after the election. >> also there's a lot riding on the success or failures of the exchanges for these insurance companies, and they dump a lot of money into congress. >> stephanie: right. the more it complicated the task of the federal government. they can do it themselves have the federal government do it or have a partnership. >> right. it's like a one stop shop and now it will be a lot more complicated than that on the back end, but that's the idea of what we're building. t

this is really awesome, this project orca. >> yeah. >> stephanie: that romney was depending on for the sounds like communism. >> yeah, it's the program that we mentioned last week on the show, the big technological advance get out the vote project, and it failed miserableably on several different levels. >> stephanie: right. it's harpooned on a beach. >> giant whale yes. >> stephanie: we have something like that and it's called nate silver. >> and he worked yeah. good morning, everybody, seven navy seals are being disciplined for giving classified information to video game maker electronic art. the seven are members of sale team six known for killing osama bin laden. the seals worked as paid consult acts help them develop the game medal of honor war fighter. it does show other realistic ops garnered from classified information, and while the specifics are not entirely clear, their participation does also violate the unwritten but undercode that seals are supposed to be stealth warriors. the seven have gotten letters of reprimand which wipes out their chance for promotion. there are oth

the technology included so-called orca system. some of you maybe read about that in the last couple days which was the republican get-out-the-vote technology to insure that we were targeting people getting to the polls. it imploded on election day. it got so many hits from around the country as it should have saying gee this person voted. this person didn't vote. target calls. we thought it was under attack and closed down. so for those of you here from, again, the technology field and with interest in politics, we republicans want to talk to you. [laughter] we need some help. the democrats system i think is called gorton was quite effective at microtargeting. i heard a lot of anecdotes. i heard one this morning that you will love. someone gets a call a democrat in law school. gee, we see you voted. by the way this information is publicly voted. it is at 2:00 on election, but your sister at tulane has not voted, could you call her? that east the level which they were dealing we frankly were flying blind at that point. part of it i