So it turns out that this whole “writing” thing is hard, particularly when you’re in the middle of launching two big new client projects. But while we’re waiting for cognitive surplus to return, check out last week’s...
Hey kids, Epolitics.com is back in business after a long summer break. More details about what’s been happening down here in the bunker soon, but first, let’s look at how the campaigns spun last week’s Republican convention...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the 2016 presidential campaigns! Note that we’re leaving Bernie on the list until he formally drops out. The data is via our friends at CrowdTangle, and remember that these...
A few weeks ago, I chatted with a team from the French TV channel Canal+ about political GIFs. We’d originally planned to talk in front of the White House, but a steady drizzle was falling and we held most of our video shoot in the covered...
The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it. So much for an informed electorate. Update: A post-referendum “Remain” petition apparently crashed the British Parliament’s petition site...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the 2016 presidential campaigns. Note that I’m keeping Bernie Sanders on the list until he formally drops out, in part because it’s interesting to watch his messaging...
Brexit! In our latest sign of populist political dissatisfaction, the British chose last night to leave the European Union. Voters in declining industrial cities left behind by the global economy provided the decisive margin, which ought to give...
God is on the side of the big battalions, or so I hear. Photo via the National Archives. The announcement was essentially inevitable, but let’s still take note: Hillary Clinton can now tap the 20 million-odd supporter email addresses that...
First things first: Periscope may be just over a year old, but live-streaming video isn’t exactly new: I remember being at events broadcast via (now-defunct) Qik more than half a decade ago. And, we first explored the basics of using Periscope...
The Hill’s Jessie Hellman reports: The Donald Trump campaign sent its first “emergency” fundraising email to supporters Saturday, seeking to raise at least $100,000 by the end of the day. That request follows a multimillion-dollar...