McCain Volunteer’s Claim of Attack Unravelled, Online and Off. C.f. Tweets Give Race-Baiting Hoaxster a ‘B’ for Effort Twitter’s Role in Digital Democracy. C.f. Campaigns need to listen to the Internet Media and Update:...
Talking with several different groups lately, I’ve ended up using the analogy that online politics has more in common with trench warfare than it does with blitzkrieg (hmmm, maybe not bring that up with the Poles next time). What I mean is...
Hidden in the middle of a long Politico piece about in-the-news Republican Congressmember Michele Bachmann is this glimpse at one way to divide a modern communications outreach operation: As a freshman with a lone Financial Services Committee...
Cross-posted on techPresident Sunday’s announcement from the Obama campaign confirmed it: whatever other political roles it may play, the internet is one hell of a way to fund a campaign. Obama raised more than $150 million in September...
If you’re in D.C. on Wednesday, swing on by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce HQ over near the White House at lunchtime — I’ll be speaking at this month’s Grassroots Forum meeting at noon. These events usually get 100-200 people...
Americans may have been waging electronic war via robot this past week, but we aren’t the only ones fighting dirty online: as the Post reported on Saturday, several of the main websites used by Al Qaeda to spread information have been down...
Cross-posted on K Street Café Well, at least we’ve gotten ONE thing settled this political year: we now know what e.politics actually IS. At least according to (former) reader-via-email-signup K— S——, who sent this friendly...
Country royalty has weighed in on the presidential race — Hank Williams Jr. (known to the kids as the “Are You Ready for Some Football” guy) released a song earlier this week praising the virtues of the current Republican ticket...
Local California GOP Site Endorses E-mail Smears, Said ‘Waterboard Obama’. Watching Joe The Plumber on Google Trends. You Got Mail? Analysis Shows That Sometimes, McCain’s Supporters Don’t. McCain’s deliverability...
With three weeks to go before the election and their candidate down by double-digit margins, the Republicans have come out with all guns blazing against…a nonprofit with no direct connection to the Obama campaign. Why has ACORN — an...