Billionaire and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this weekend that he’ll invest at least $100,000,000 in the state of Florida to help elect his one-time presidential rival, Joe Biden, beat Donald Trump. Say that again: one...
Our friends at Campaigns & Elections have featured the logistics chapter from How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections on their site! It’s a chance for everyone to take a look inside the book, in this case at...
Poster child for brain-dead TV-buying, 2012 edition A couple of recent articles have highlighted a flood of money entering Senate races via “independent expenditure” groups, some of them narrowly focused: By the fall, political...
The following is an excerpt from the new ebook, “How to Use the Internet to Win in 2014: A Comprehensive Guide to Online Politics for Campaigns & Advocates”, available in the Amazon store for the Kindle e-reader and as a PDF here on...
The folks at political consulting firm BuzzMaker have come up with a damn useful little tool: a simple calculator that projects online fundraising totals over time, based on variables like list size, response rate, unsubscribe rate, how many emails...
According to an article in National Journal today, Newt Gingrich is so bullish on internet advertising that he’s encouraging Republicans to spend as much on it as they do on television. Fortunately for Republican candidates, NJ reporter Ashlie...
Hi folks, this just in from ClickZ‘s crack political advertising reporter, Kate Kaye: As you may know, ClickZ is putting together a free resource for political campaigns set to publish in May called “Digital Political Campaigns 101...
Part Two of How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 Using the internet for politics may seem new, but most online campaigning at some level just reincarnates classic political acts in digital form. For instance, you can think of a website...
Also published on techPresident and K Street Cafe Plenty of people are already looking ahead to the outcome of the 2010 elections, in particular what happens to the Democrats’ control of Congress. The party of an incumbent President almost...
Hi y’all, poor Allyson Kapin lost her mind long enough to ask me to write a guest piece over on Frogloop, and it’s live at last — now unkillable by man or beast. The idea behind the article: that in an economic downturn, it may be...