Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the several hundred progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Of note this week: deflated balls, naturally. A special note to our readers-via-email: be sure to...
Guest article! Laura Packard’s work has appeared on our pages many times, and she’s back this time with tips for launching a candidate’s online presence at the start of a campaign. Check out her past Epolitics.com articles or learn...
In this issue, a post-#shutdown version of The Good, The Bad and the Stinky. From the Start, Signs of Trouble at Health Portal. Oof: The Obamacare Website Could Stay Broken for a While as Quixotic Queries Question Quality! (At healthcare.gov, the...
Now blooming: the first Quick Hits of spring. Obama reelection announcement will be a digital extravaganza (Update: it was). Also note the possibility of a big Dem independent expenditure group forming. Update: C.f. What Obama’s re-election...
The email below went out this afternoon to the gentlemen and ladies of the political press. The sender? Michael Steel from John Boehner’s office (not, alas, Michael Steele of the RNC). The subject? A tweet. This may be another first, our...
Cross-posted on Fem2.0 Quick: off the top of your head, name the most prominent voices in the progressive political blogosphere. Kos? A guy. Atrios? A guy. Josh Marshall? Glenn Greenwald? Jerome Armstrong? Ditto. The only top-level female bloggers...
You know, all this “hope” talk lately has been getting to me. Maybe it’s my father’s roots in Louisiana, where the cash is in the freezer, or perhaps it’s my mom’s ties to Arkansas, where outsiders just...
Back from post-election mental vacation, if not exactly willingly. Big-picture pieces: How Obama won and How He Did It, both via PoliticalWire. Obama and the dawn of the Fourth Republic. What a difference five years makes, if you use it right...
Country royalty has weighed in on the presidential race — Hank Williams Jr. (known to the kids as the “Are You Ready for Some Football” guy) released a song earlier this week praising the virtues of the current Republican ticket...
Welcome to the neighborhood, Politico! “In its early days the Politico is demonstrating the same coziness with power and pack reporting mentality that’s sadly been the hallmark of old media.” Huffington journalism professor = mass...