I Got It Almost Right

From November 8th, surveying the "superiority" of the big-data tools that the President used to demolish Governor Romney's campaign:

Holding the Presidency confers an enormous advantage. The incumbent party--whether Democrat or Republican--will have access to oceans of data not necessarily available to its opponent. It is nigh impossible to enforce privacy rules, especially since enforcement is done largely through self-policing.

The error was in thinking that the access to and misuse of big data applied to future campaigns.