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ByThomasBeaumont The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA Donald Trump trails Hillary Clin- ton by months, even years, in using fast-evolving dig- ital campaigning to win over voters, data specialists working with the GOP say. The presumptive Repub- lican presidential nomi- nee has dismissed the sci- ence that defines 21st cen- tury political campaigns, a tool that President Barack Obama used effectively in winning two terms and the Clinton campaign has worked on for nearly a year. And while it is too early to tell whether the late start signals trouble for Trump, it illustrates the difference between Trump's proudly outsider campaign and the institutional knowledge within Clinton's. "She's been able to pre- pare a general election cam- paign since the beginning," said Alex Lundry, former se- nior technology adviser to Mitt Romney's 2012 Re- publican presidential cam- paign. "That head start in terms of time is extraordi- narily valuable." Precision digital-market- ing data, a person's online footprints, have become an electoral science that Dem- ocrats have dominated, and Republicans have chased, for a decade. Campaigns used the data at first sim- ply to track supporters. The information now guides a range of decisions, like the types and volume of adver- tising, where to deploy cam- paign staff to mobilize vot- ers and where a candidate should visit. Trump's team has been unclear about its use of data in the general election. Trump told The Associ- ated Press this month the tool was "overrated" and he planned "limited" data use during the general elec- tion, though his campaign has worked with firms and a small in-house staff to track voters during the pri- maries. Later, senior adviser Rick Wiley, who was hired in April, suggested Trump would run a "state of the art" campaign and use data strategically, relying on Trump's own list of sup- porters, the Republican Na- tional Committee's voter list and a data service fi- nanced largely by the RNC called Data Trust. "All of the data points — whatever they are — our ability to harvest that data is invaluable," said Wiley, the RNC's former executive director. He has since left the campaign, after what a source close to the mat- ter said were disagreements with Trump loyalists about who should lead campaign efforts in key states. The person spoke on condition of anonymity, lacking au- thorization to discuss in- ternal campaign matters publicly. Given how Republicans have long trailed Democrats in digital campaigning, Trump's grudging talk and Wiley's departure hardly signal a rush to catch up. Trump spent more than $1 million in April on cam- paign paraphernalia like caps, T-shirts and signs. Even as he was effectively seizing the nomination, he spent less than a third of that amount on data and re- lated functions such as tele- marketing. Obama's 2008 presiden- tial campaign revolution- ized the way technology could be used to identify and keep track of support- ers who attended his cam- paign events and gave money to his candidacy. In 2012, Obama's re-elec- tion campaign profiled po- tential voters by monitoring what online, mobile, read- ing and shopping choices they made. The data helped them project election out- comes based on advertising decisions in specific mar- kets aimed at select voter types. Obama's 2012 re-elec- tion was viewed as a break- through in the political ap- plication of what had been a commercial tool, while Romney's own data effort started late, was more lim- ited in scope and ultimately crashed. Clinton's campaign has been collecting data since she announced her candi- dacy 11 months ago. Elan Kriegel, an analytics di- rector for Obama in 2012, now heads Clinton's analyt- ics team. And, Jeremy Bird, credited with using the data in 2012 for decision-mak- ing that preceded the pres- ident's re-election, is advis- ing the Clinton campaign. Kriegel said the nearly yearlong preparation has al- lowed his team to build in- tricate voter turnout mod- els aimed at predicting voter behavior, especially in potential swing states. "If you weren't doing it several months ago, then you really are starting from scratch," Kriegel said. Trump's challenge may be even more difficult, said Andy Burkett, the Republi- can National Committee's former chief technology of- ficer. PRESIDENTIAL RACE On c ut ti ng -e dg e vo te r da ta , Tr um p tr ai ls C li nt on By Steve Peoples and Emily Swanson The Associated Press WASHINGTON Republicans and Democrats feel a mas- sive disconnect with their political parties and help- less about the presidential election. That's according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Pub- lic Affairs Research, which helps explain the rise of out- sider candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sand- ers and suggests challenges ahead for fractured parties that must come together to win this fall. "It feels like the state of politics is generally bro- ken," said Joe Denother, a 37-year-old Oregon voter who typically favors Re- publicans. The divisive primary season has fueled an over- all sense of pessimism about the political process that underscores a widen- ing chasm between polit- ical parties and the vot- ers they claim to represent. Just 12 percent of Republi- cans think the GOP is very responsive to ordinary vot- ers, while 25 percent of Democrats say the same of their party. Among all Americans, the AP-NORC poll found that just 8 percent consider the Republican Party to be very or extremely respon- sive to what ordinary voters think. An additional 29 per- cent consider the GOP mod- erately responsive and 62 percent say it's only slightly or not at all responsive. The Democratic Party fares only slightly better, with 14 percent saying the party is very or extremely responsive, 38 percent call- ing it moderately respon- sive, and 46 percent saying it's only slightly or not at all responsive. Denother, who works in health insurance, says he feels the disconnect with the party he usually sup- ports. "The Republicans have gotten away from their core message of fiscal responsi- bility," said Denother, who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012 and is undecided this year. "I feel there's an iden- tity crisis. And with a lack of identity, it's hard to have confidence in the party." The survey exposes an extraordinary crisis of con- fidence in most major polit- ical institutions just as both parties intensify efforts to connect with voters head- ing into the general elec- tion. In general, only 15 per- cent of Americans report a great deal of confidence in the Democratic Party com- pared with just 8 percent who say the same of the GOP. That's as only 4 per- cent say they have a great deal of confidence in Con- gress, 15 percent in the ex- ecutive branch and 24 per- cent in the Supreme Court. The findings come as Trump assumes the mantle of GOP leader, having won the number of delegates necessary to clinch the Re- publican presidential nom- ination. Trump got there with an aggressive anti-es- tablishment message, rail- ing against his party lead- ers for months. NowtheNewYorkbillion- aire appears to be changing course. He recently entered into a high-dollar fundrais- ing agreement with the Re- publican National Commit- tee and plans to rely heavily on the RNC's staffing and data programs to connect with voters. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton remains locked in a divisive primary battle with Sanders, a self- identified democratic so- cialist who has inspired a large and loyal following. The Vermont senator has echoed Trump's charges of an unfair political system that's stacked against him and ordinary Americans, a criticism that resonates with many voters. "It seems that everything was made straight for Hill- ary Clinton," said Ron Cs- erbak, a 63-year-old retired teacher who lives in Cincin- nati and usually votes for Democrats. POLITICS AP-NORC Poll: Voters feel disconnected, helpless in 2016 MANUELBALCECENETA—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters and bikers at a Rolling Thunder rally at the National Mall in Washington, on Sunday. By Jennifer Kay The Associated Press MIAMI Travelers who had braced for long lines and long waits were instead moving through most U.S. airports fairly quickly Mon- day, as the busy Memorial Day travel weekend drew to close. "Honestly it wasn't too bad," said Kendra More- head of Wooster, Ohio, who flew from Detroit to Denver for a conference. "I got to the airport an hour and a half early, but security only took like 15 minutes." She added, "I heard a lot of stories about security be- ing understaffed, but every- thing seemed fine." However, the airlines weren't ready to say "mis- sion accomplished" yet, as it's just the beginning of the busy summer travel season. "Things have been go- ing pretty well so far this weekend and we are work- ing hard to make sure that we have no repeat of what we saw in Chicago," said American Airlines spokes- man Ross Feinstein, refer- ring to Chicago O'Hare In- ternational Airport, which had some of the worst screening problems in re- cent weeks. The airline continues to talk daily with the Trans- portation Security Admin- istration to coordinate, Feinstein said. The TSA began deploy- ing extra canine teams to the busiest airports months ago. The dogs can screen large groups of passengers for explosives, eliminating the need to remove shoes and laptops, TSA spokes- man Mike England said last week. The extra dogs were con- centrated at the nation's largest airports, but they weren't used for all screen- ings, meaning that many travelers still had to ob- serve the usual procedures. England said the extra dogs would remain at security checkpoints well beyond the Memorial Day weekend. In some parts of Lam- bert-St. Louis International Airport, lines were nonexis- tent and ID-carrying trav- elers were outnumbered by clusters of TSA employees. At John F. Kennedy In- ternational Airport in New York City, travelers arriv- ing from major cities such as San Francisco, Los An- geles, Phoenix and Miami said their security lines had been short. Not everyone had a smooth trip, however. Bob Dunlap of Milford, Mich- igan, expected to wait an hour to get through a secu- rity line that snaked from the Denver airport's cavern- ous security plaza all the way back to baggage claim. He had tried to expe- dite his screening by ar- riving three hours early and checking his baggage. "What can you do?" he said with a shrug. "I've never been in a line like this for security, ever." California's Sacramento International Airport was crowded but about normal for a holiday travel day, ac- cording to an airport dis- patcher. An early morning photo posted on Twitter showed a line into the airport stretch- ing all the way back to a parking garage. The dis- patcher said that was taken during the airport's busiest part of the day and the line had shrunk by late morn- ing. At Hartsfield-Jackson In- ternational Airport in At- lanta, travelers swiftly wove through ropes directing them toward the main TSA checkpoint Monday after- noon. In recent weeks, pas- sengers at the same check- point inside the world's bus- iest airport have waited in single-file lines stretching into the airport's atrium or back to baggage claim. Reese McCranie, a spokesman for the Atlanta airport, said security wait times averaged 15 min- utes or less throughout the weekend, aided by 30 TSA officers on loan from smaller airports and about 34 new officers who started work a week ago. "Memorial Day is really a dress rehearsal for the rest of the summer," Mc- Cranie said. "We're hopeful that we're working toward a similar experience for all other major travel periods." At Orlando International Airport, extra airport staff was helping keep wait times to just over seven minutes on Monday, said airport spokeswoman Carolyn Fen- nell. The airport hired 27 ex- tra customer service staff and added more disposal bins for prohibited items to help smooth out the se- curity screening process, Fennell said. TRAVEL Few holiday airport headaches; most find wait times bearable KIICHIRO SATO — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Travelers walk between terminals at O'Hare International Airport on Monday in Chicago. | NEWS | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016 8 A