The Atlantic has the long but engaging and amusing tale of the Obama campaign’s “Tech” team, who designed all the various apps that Obama 2012 used to fundraise, organize, contact voters, etc.

The second was simply that Narwhal worked. ORCA didn't. After the Obama campaign's failed Houdini experiment, it didn't give up on tracking Election Day returns electronically.

Volunteers say the campaign's high-tech get-out-the-vote effort, called Project ORCA, was plagued by logistical problems and a broken app that failed when they needed it most — on Election Day.

It seems the Orca is the greatest natural predator of the Narwhal, the name of the Obama campaign's top secret voter micro-targeting system. Full Episode Sunday, Nov 3 ...

Killer whale abundance and predicted narwhal consumption in the Canadian Arctic. Global Change Biology , 26 (8), 4276-4283. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15152 Banner image caption: A group of narwhals.

A narwhal tusk was used against a terrorist in London in November. ... especially from predators like orca whales. According to the London Review of Books, if the ice melts, ...

Killer whale predation on bowhead whales, for example, has threatened the species’ recovery in the Eastern Arctic. ... If we’re not, the narwhal could go the way of the unicorn.