These are the simple ways technology can help get out the vote: check out the polling place/ballot info finder below, developed by the
Just in time for election day, NGPVAN has put out a new mobile tool that helps campaigns target voters who haven’t yet turned out. The cool part? The “Mobile Pollwatcher” integrates with the VAN voter database so that ALL...
Two days from the presidential election, here’s where we stand: tight in the popular vote, but with a small but consistent Obama lead in the bulk of the battleground states. Both campaigns are spending big money on TV ads, and Obama’s...
Taegan Goddard links to an Obama memo laying out the campaign’s case for the power of his grassroots field operation to turn out the vote: “This morning, as our volunteer Neighborhood Team Leaders opened 5,117 get-out-the-vote (GOTV)...
Yes I know, to those of us in The Profession, it sounds like a rhetorical question: can social media win the presidential election?. Of course the answer’s “no” — it’s incredibly rare for a single factor of any kind to...
Hi folks, I’m lucky enough to be on what looks to be a terrific post-election panel offered by the DC Social Media Club and the Beekeeper Group on November 7th as a part of Digital Capital Week. We’ll be discussing lessons nonprofit and...
Hard to believe, but election day is less than a week away, and across the country, campaigns and outside groups are running a full-on GOTV blitz. Let’s give ’em some help — below is a short list of useful online resources for...
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...