Boffins wanted

Scientists are already helping to shape the Obama campaign

Feb 11th 2012 | CHICAGO | from the print edition

 There’s no escape Correction to this article IN A presidential election the incumbent enjoys many advantages. One of the less obvious may be the leisure to recruit a strong team of boffins. Team Obama has long been scouring the nation for scientists. It has sought out computing experts, mathematicians, programmers and statisticians. Many are already hard at work at the campaign’s headquarters in Chicago. [More...]

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