I quite liked the profile of @harper in The Atlantic the other day, even if it was a little too fawning. To me the lesson to be drawn from these articles is th

I quite liked the profile of @harper in The Atlantic the other day, even if it was a little too fawning. To me the lesson to be drawn from these articles is that the Obama campaign saw their IT infrastructure as a 'core business unit' and vertically integrated it, whereas the Romney campaign treated it like any other commodity service. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-the-nerds-go-marching-in/265325/?single_page=true http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-t...