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    Can Campaign Pollsters Sell Obamacare to Young Adults?

    Strategists successfully used Big Data to micro-target the young people who helped elect and re-elect President Obama. Now those same strategists are using the same technology with a new goal: getting young people to buy heath insurance.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Strategists successfully used Big Data to micro-target the young people who helped elect and re-elect President Obama. Now those same strategists are using the same technology with a new goal: getting young people to buy heath insurance. President Obama today turned a news conference into a selling job with arguments designed to recruit young people to buy health insurance. We hear how they're doing it from Sara Kliff, health policy reporter for the Washington Post, and Jonathan Alter, news analyst for MSNBC and author of The Center Holds: Obama and his Enemies.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Caitlin Shamberg

      KCRW

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      Sonya Geis

      Senior Managing Editor

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      Evan George

      Director of Content, News

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      Sarah Kliff

      Vox

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      Jonathan Alter

      MSNBC

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    The full episode

    3 of 3
    Is a 'Border Surge' Bad for Business at the Border?
    1. 0:00Five Years in Jail for Russian Anti-Putin Activist
    2. 8:20Immigration Reform and Border Security
    3. 44:17Can Campaign Pollsters Sell Obamacare to Young Adults?You’re reading this
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