Here’s a quick example of how NOT to do GOTV — a Republican political “operative” (a word that always amuses me) has been flooding swing-state voters’ phones with spam texts detailing how horrible Barack Obama is...
This email just arrived in the e.politics bunker, where we’re currently hunkered down waiting for Hurricane Sandy, aka the Frankenstorm, to make DC very cold and very wet. Subject: Hurricane Sandy Colin — This is a serious storm, but we...
Hi, the recent changes at Salsa and Change.org have understandably sparked some long discussions on the various progressive activist listservs and other discussion forums; you’ve seen the initial Epolitics.com responses earlier (Salsa here...
Big news broke in the advocacy space last night: Change.org will now begin accepting paid petitions from conservative groups, including Republican political campaigns and anti-abortion groups. In response, progressive activists, who’ve...
Guest article! Kayle Hatt sends this from Canada, where a certain politician should have listened the advice advice he gave in a popular Epolitics.com piece: Long-time Epolitics.com readers may remember my August, 2010 post on the need for...
Last week I had the pleasure of (virtually) dropping by the FDH Lounge — internet radio’s finest no-topics-barred discussion show — to chat with host Rick Morris, something I get to do every six months or so. Rick and I agree...
Oct. 30th Event at The Press Club: The Online Election — Social Media and the 2012 Presidential Race
Howdy folks, on October 30th I get to take part in what promises to be a terrific discussion about social media and the presidential race at the National Press Club: The Online Election – Social Media and the 2012 Presidential Race The 2012 U...
Update: Campaigns & Elections has April’s email to Salsa staff. Heartbreaking. Update II: Just days after the big news from Salsa, it became public knowledge that Change.org was shedding its progressive/lefty orientation. Read more. News...
Ah, sweet internets — you do have a way of picking out salient moments that our Official Information Gatekeepers might have missed in earlier times. Last night’s example? The “binders full of women” that Romney supposedly...
E.J. “gets” how social media changes the environment within which political events occur: But there is another aspect of tonight, and that’s the part played by the staffs of the two candidates and their supporters. What people say...