That was fast! Online analytics company PeopleBrowsr (the folks behind Kred) used their access to the full Twitter “firehose” to aggregate and analyze the pattern of debate-related Tweets sent out last night. Here’s what they...
Woo hoo, the first presidential debate is tomorrow! Fire up your Tivos, kids, so you don’t miss a second of the non-stop action…and be glad that the professional refs are back on the job. Okay fine, maybe the debates aren’t really...
Hi folks, we’re back from a brief work/travel frenzy. First on the Epolitics.com editorial calendar: how’s that new e-book doing? Surprisingly well, particularly considering that the election’s only five weeks away and campaign...
What’s the matter with Kansas? Apparently, voter fraud: check out the image below, from Slate.com, the New America Foundation and News21, and see what you think (note: click-and-hold to move the map around and see the whole country, as with a...
Howdy Mitt, not sure if you’ve noticed (oh wait, in theory you have), but we’re living in an era in which the camera is ALWAYS on. Here are just a few Epolitics.com articles on the nature of politics in an era in which a...
Update: check out this great Financial Times behind-the-scenes article about Obama’s field outreach, voter data and microtargeting. Mitt Romney’s mouth isn’t the only thing making the Obama team “cautiously confident”...
Hey kids, you have three (count ’em, three!) opportunities to hang with e.politics this week: On Wednesday at 3:30 Eastern I’ll be talking with Karen Jagoda on the Digital Politics Radio show; listen live at Gab Radio or check out the...
Quick Hits returns! Twitter Deputizes Millions of Pundits During Political Conventions. C.f. Postcards From the Parallel Universe in Real Time and Obama’s DNC speech sets new political record on Twitter. Google searches for “register to...
Besides the Big Questions for 2012 we talked about yesterday, the current Campaigns & Elections TechBytes column also looks at some targeting options beyond those involving digital cookies and voter databases. Another useful channel? Cable TV...
Campaign 2012 should be decisive in a big bunch of ways — we’ll get a new president and a fundamentally different Congress…or we won’t, for example. But political digerati will be watching for special insights in our own...