Adapted from Chapter Three of How to Use the Internet to Change the World — and Win Elections. Download your copy today. This piece is also published on Medium.com. Most of this book will dive deeply into the tools and tactics of digital...
Republican lawmakers intent on dismantling Obamacare face some serious hurdles, among them their own constituents angry at the thought of losing coverage and the difficult balancing act party leaders have created for themselves. With the House...
Quick Hits is back! Let’s clear the queue and try to do these more regularly. Marco Rubio would like to sell you this broken watch. Note that that this went up during the Thursday debate, as he was launching his “selling watches”...
At the start of 2015, who’d have thought we’d be talking about political data on a Democratic debate stage? But December’s debate debut wasn’t the end of this political spat: as we discuss in the latest Technology Bytes, the...
Quick Hits is back! Let’s clear the queue with a campaign-heavy (and social media-focused) catch-up edition. Enjoy. N.Y. Times blocks access to homepage for staff, to highlight importance of mobile. Hillary Clinton just ceded her Twitter...
Koch Brothers Will Spend $889 Million on 2016, as Clinton plans to astound, intimidate with fundraising ‘like nothing you’ve seen’. Not surprsingly, A Massive Wave of Secret Money Is Coming. Supporters say Clinton developing...
Remember that we talked last week about the Koch brothers creation of an alternate political campaign structure independent of the Republican Party? Now i360, the data arm of that operation, is pulling staff from RNC itself: Chuck DeFeo, the RNC...
Hi folks, my latest Campaigns & Elections magazine Technology Bytes column is out, and you don’t want to miss it. The current edition leads off with a discussion of the voter-data infrastructure being created by the Koch brothers’...
Enough good reading about internet politics and advocacy to keep us busy until the New Year’s hangovers fade. [Image: Deep Impact probe comet collision. Boom!] The Kochs eclipse the RNC: Meet the guys behind the right’s best data shop...
Interesting development on the Right: big donors seem to be encouraging Republican Independent Expenditure groups to move out of a TV-only organizing model. Shades of a grassroots superPAC, a la Ready for Hillary? Part of their motivation is...