So here we are at the end: of campaign 2008 certainly, and of the modern conservative movement perhaps. Boo! That’s all McCain and his supporters have left. Obama is a “Marxist,” a “socialist” and a...
Check out this great use of Google Maps for advocacy, sent in by anti-political-robocall activist and social media enthusiast Shaun Dakin — it takes the contents of his organization’s robocall database and displays them visually through...
Hi folks, e.politics will be participating in a OneWorld-sponsored discussion next week about the tools and tactics of online advocacy, looking specifically at best practices based on what we’ve seen in the past year. Bet the presidential...
In politics, what’s important isn’t always what you can see. And compared with television ads and campaign events, field organizing is invisible — reporters on the campaign bus can only see the end result, which is the crowd that...
Ready for a blogger relations refresher course? I’m presenting a webinar this afternoon for a group of foreign policy organizations on the tools and tactics used for promoting issues through blogs. You know what that means: time to gather up...
Would-be Obama assassins met online, of course. Popular Conservative Blog Backs Alaska Democrats. The Election That Has the Whole World Blogging. Tweet Your Voting Moment. Obama Campaign Streams Closing Argument Online. Sexy Robocall Flogs...
Cross-posted on techPresident Got your attention with that headline, eh? No, I’m not saying the ‘net has jumped the shark or otherwise taken a stock market-like plunge as a political tool, but I AM saying that in the last weeks of a...
McCain Volunteer’s Claim of Attack Unravelled, Online and Off. C.f. Tweets Give Race-Baiting Hoaxster a ‘B’ for Effort Twitter’s Role in Digital Democracy. C.f. Campaigns need to listen to the Internet Media and Update:...
Talking with several different groups lately, I’ve ended up using the analogy that online politics has more in common with trench warfare than it does with blitzkrieg (hmmm, maybe not bring that up with the Poles next time). What I mean is...
Hidden in the middle of a long Politico piece about in-the-news Republican Congressmember Michele Bachmann is this glimpse at one way to divide a modern communications outreach operation: As a freshman with a lone Financial Services Committee...