In Campaigns & Elections this week, I explore a big question: what will a post-pandemic political campaign look like? My answers aren’t quite as far out as January’s predictions for the next decade, but they should give you a few ideas to chew on. What does media-buying look like...
Read More »Perhaps you’ve heard of the Peter Principle, the notion that competent people rise in their jobs until they reach a point where they DON’T know what they’re doing. I.e., they’re promoted to the level of their incompetence. Did the opposite happen to now-former Trump...
Read More »While Epolitics.com was well into its post-election hiatus in December, I awoke briefly from an editorial slumber to write in Campaigns & eletions about the strange year political data had in 2016. My definition of “data” was inclusive: the piece wove the DNC VoteBuilder data...
Read More »Yesterday we looked at Donald Trump’s sophisticated Facebook infrastructure, which included targeted “dark posts” and an impressive program to recruit supporters and test content on a massive scale (175,000 variants in one day!). But Hillary Clinton was no slouch on the digital...
Read More »Facebook’s come in for plenty of criticism since Election Day, in part for its role in helping fake election news stories and conspiracy theories spread online in the months before Trump’s victory. But did the vast social network help put Trump in the White House through other means?...
Read More »Was anyone truly surprised to learn that Donald Trump bragged about forcing himself on women in the “Access Hollywood” video released Friday? If you were, you haven’t been paying attention — from Meghyn Kelly to Miss Piggy (AKA Alicia Machado), Trump’s made his...
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