ProPublica has tried to reverse-engineer an Obama fundraising email, different versions of which went to a husband and wife: Sinker and his wife weren’t the only ones to receive similar but subtly different emails from the Obama campaign...
From our friends at FlackCheck.org, a new organization spun off from FactCheck.org that looks at political advertising: Not bad at all! Musical numbers ain’t easy, and illustrating the ad trends this way is a lot more compelling than some dry...
Howdy folks, South by Southwest is coming up fast, and I’m getting completely psyched for our panel discussion on the Occupy movement as citizen journalism. Two of our four panelists were involved on the media side of Occupy Wall Street, while...
It really started with an image: The all-male, clerical-heavy line-up was speaking before Rep. Darrell Issa’s House hearing on the Obama administration’s new policy requiring contraceptive coverage in new health insurance policies, with...
Wow, here’s a striking number from Kate Kaye at ClickZ: Online ad spending by President Obama’s reelection campaign has reached over $8 million. When combined with web ad spending by the Democratic National Committee, the number tops the...
Also published on HuffingtonPost Even as talk of a brokered Republican convention refuses to fade even after Romney’s Arizona and Michigan victories, you can see evidence of the profound advantage the Republicans would give the Obama campaign...
Howdy folks, we’ve had a busy morning over at the day job — it’s campaign launch time! And we have some great materials to work with, starting with the first of three snazzy videos: Yep, it’s a reproductive rights campaign...
For insight into the shape of the Obama grassroots turnout machine that Republicans will have to counter in the Fall, look no further than the campaign’s January income/expense filing. For instance: The campaign’s single largest expense...
As Michigan and Arizona voters head to the polls to choose a Republican presidential candidate, the folks at Daily Kos hope that at least a few liberals will be among them. Why? Because they’ll vote for Rick Santorum, of course — that...
Our good friend (and recent Pinterest enthusiast) Beth Becker reports in with this tidbit from the trail: campaigns are turning to “protected” Twitter feeds to organize volunteers. Since the account owner of a protected feed has to...