Most political campaigns pinch pennies — if they can find a way to save a few bucks on voter outreach, they usually will. That’s one reason “addressable” advertising has become popular in the past five years, particularly at...
If you caught Donald Trump’s Phoenix rally tonight, have a stiff drink — I think we could all use one. The speech itself was a parade of lies, distortions, omissions and outright madness, though I will point out that the President...
You might have missed the news in the never-ending blizzard of Trump-related stories, but digital politics now has a role in the investigation about possible ties between his campaign and the Russian government. Specifically, members of the now...
Greetings from Netroots Nation! I’m in Atlanta with hundreds of my favorite folks on the Left, learning and chatting and learning and chatting (right now I’m in a session on the future of digital organizing run by Beth Becker and John...
If you’re running for office in 2018, what should you be doing right now? Former Congressional candidate Andy Millard and I talked through that question in detail on the sidelines of C&E’s CampaignExpo conference a couple of weeks...
Happy 4th! When Quick Hits returns from a long vacation, you KNOW it’s a day to celebrate. Jon Ossoff, The Congressional Candidate Social Media Built. C.f. How the Democrats’ Online Strategy Went Haywire. On Ossoff and emails, via Shaun...
This year’s congressional special elections have generated tons of media coverage, most focusing on implications for the 2018 midterms…and for the Trump presidency. But digital folks should note two important trends that I point out in...
When Hillary Clinton took the stage yesterday at a Recode conference, she also took the opportunity to blame DNC data for her loss last year, as Aaron Blake reports in the Post: I set up my campaign and we have our own data operation. I get the...
According to a new report from online advocacy platform EveryAction, that number may be 20%…or more. The 2017 Nonprofit Email Deliverability Study is the brainchild of deliverability guru (and friend of e.politics) Brett Schenker, and the...
Cool stuff on the digital advertising front today: the Montana Democratic Party is using DSPolitical’s voter models and targeting ability to put ads like this one in front of Montana voters who could lose health coverage if Republicans repeal...