What’s the matter with Kansas? Apparently, voter fraud: check out the image below, from Slate.com, the New America Foundation and News21, and see what you think (note: click-and-hold to move the map around and see the whole country, as with a...
Howdy Mitt, not sure if you’ve noticed (oh wait, in theory you have), but we’re living in an era in which the camera is ALWAYS on. Here are just a few Epolitics.com articles on the nature of politics in an era in which a...
Update: check out this great Financial Times behind-the-scenes article about Obama’s field outreach, voter data and microtargeting. Mitt Romney’s mouth isn’t the only thing making the Obama team “cautiously confident”...
Hey kids, you have three (count ’em, three!) opportunities to hang with e.politics this week: On Wednesday at 3:30 Eastern I’ll be talking with Karen Jagoda on the Digital Politics Radio show; listen live at Gab Radio or check out the...
Quick Hits returns! Twitter Deputizes Millions of Pundits During Political Conventions. C.f. Postcards From the Parallel Universe in Real Time and Obama’s DNC speech sets new political record on Twitter. Google searches for “register to...
Besides the Big Questions for 2012 we talked about yesterday, the current Campaigns & Elections TechBytes column also looks at some targeting options beyond those involving digital cookies and voter databases. Another useful channel? Cable TV...
Campaign 2012 should be decisive in a big bunch of ways — we’ll get a new president and a fundamentally different Congress…or we won’t, for example. But political digerati will be watching for special insights in our own...
Hmmm, let’s see what Catalist, Aristotle, NGPVAN et al have to say about this latest move from NationBuilder: Today we are introducing the NationBuilder Election Center – a free nationwide voter file that also includes an API designed for...
Digital politics freaks, rejoice! For Science Is On Our Side: according to a study just out in Nature, the messages we post on Facebook CAN have an actual effect on politics. From the abstract: Here we report results from a randomized controlled...
Howdy folks, your redoutable Epolitics.com editorial team (i.e., me) is back from The Burn with about 2000 photographs and even more stories — some of which I might be able to tell in public! But for now, back to politics — and to the...