As you’re voting on Tuesday, don’t forget to post your experience at the Twitter Vote Report — the folks behind it, include many of the techPresident crew along with some great organizations, have put together a site to collect...
Well, we’re just pleased as proverbial punch down here in the e.politics bunker, because this weekend I got published in The Root, a sister site to Slate.com. My first actual real-live (i.e., I get paid in money) article for a legitimate...
The mission: to build a Halloween costume that’s both politically topical and DOESN’T involve Sarah Palin. The constraints: limited time, weak hand/eye coordination, no patience. Bonus for: shininess. The result: political robocalls...
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...