Longtime Clinton Ally Runs The Left's Big Data Operation Catalist

Longtime Clinton family confidant Harold Ickes founded Catalist, a company that could help Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign build a technology infrastructure similar to the one built by President Barack Obama’s campaigns.

Catalist is not a pro-Clinton organization per se, although one of its founders was Harold Ickes, a longtime Clinton confidant. Its role has mainly been to work with the entire progressive community. But the group’s resources could help a Clinton campaign jump-start the effort to build the kind of technology infrastructure that Obama and his team had years to work on between 2008 and 2012.

Catalist is funded by liberal billionaire George Soros, and builds and stores massive voter lists created by liberal outside groups.

Also last week came an announcement that billionaire George Soros will invest an additional $2.5 million in Catalist, a cutting-edge data “utility” that has built voter lists and helped many liberal organizations manage the huge amounts of data that are now a prerequisite for any campaign.