Amy Schatz continues her consistently excellent coverage of online politics for the Wall Street Journal today with an article on how local candidates are benefitting from the explosion of online fundraising: Presidential candidate John Edwards has...
As part of an article on Democratic presidential fundraising and Barak Obama’s difficulty in turning money into poll numbers, Perry Bacon Jr. and Matthew Mosk note in today’s Post that Hillary Clinton in particular has a problem: 70% of...
For those moments that demand more than a Quick Hit but less than a full bowl…of content. First off, the Post’s dedicated online politics reporter, Jose Antonio Vargas, has started his own YouTube channel, where he plans to go into...
Wow, here’s a wild one to end the week with: The California National Guard has placed on leave the personal assistant to its top general and started an investigation after questions were raised about a Web site he maintains that advocates mass...
Beating up on Times political reporter Adam Nagourney is a hobby gleefully enjoyed in many corners of the Interweb, but now that he’s ventured onto OUR turf, it’s time for a quick barrage of jabs, hooks and vicious undercuts, e.politics...
Some quick highlights from the candidates’ strategies to leverage the debates to build their supporter bases, connect with voters and foster online community: Kucinich wins for best use of his own video clip: Text “P-E-A-C-E.” SMS...
Two articles in today’s Post (which I read sitting on my front stoop on this most perfect summer Sunday morning) illuminate very different ends of the spectrum of online political activity. First, a front-page story profiles Greg Letiecq...
Cross-posted on techPresident Neilsen has published some fascinating details on how the presidential candidates are spending their media money and what kind of results they’re getting for it. MarketingCharts.com has the numbers; here are some...
Alan Rosenblatt has put together a very cool “virtual interview” with Amy Rubin, the new media strategist for John Edwards, in which she answers many of the concerns I’d raised last week in a piece about the campaign’s text...
Some email discussion over the past few days about the Edwards fundraising text/voice campaign and about last Friday’s desktop widget has really brought home to me the importance of going where your supporters are. A few years ago, online...