Hmmm, let’s see what Catalist, Aristotle, NGPVAN et al have to say about this latest move from NationBuilder: Today we are introducing the NationBuilder Election Center – a free nationwide voter file that also includes an API designed for...
Digital politics freaks, rejoice! For Science Is On Our Side: according to a study just out in Nature, the messages we post on Facebook CAN have an actual effect on politics. From the abstract: Here we report results from a randomized controlled...
Howdy folks, your redoutable Epolitics.com editorial team (i.e., me) is back from The Burn with about 2000 photographs and even more stories — some of which I might be able to tell in public! But for now, back to politics — and to the...
Epolitics.com is about to take a two-week hiatus (not for the conventions, either; I leave for the high Nevada desert and Burning Man shortly), so let me leave you with a few questions to occupy your mind in the meantime. As the 2012 election moves...
Hi folks, Julie Germany and I have two panels together in the running at South by Southwest Interactive. Can you do us a solid by popping over and voting for them? I swear it’ll be worth your while — even if you’re not going to...
Hint: most often, it’s not by cell phone. M&R Strategic Services updated their mobile benchmarks report today, and the results are interesting in a couple of areas. First, the rate of growth of nonprofit mobile acquisition has slowed...
The Federal Election Commission decided yesterday to go ahead and allow campaigns to raise money via text message. The final sticking point? The phone companies won’t have to verify that people who give money are actually legally eligible to...
Oh sure, go ahead and use your “please help now” language and your matching gifts and your thermometer-style “we’re THIS close to our goal” graphics in your fundraising emails. But that’s nothin’ —...
Why magic? Because that’s how many times the new Epolitics.com e-book, How Campaigns Can Use the Internet to Win in 2012: had been downloaded as of 5:30 this morning. And of course, that number doesn’t include any forwarding-via-email...
Also published on HuffingtonPost So! Here we are in early August, in the midst a presidential race that folks have been saying would be won by a razor-thin margin either way. Funny thing: if we can believe the polls, Obama looks to be opening a...