Louisiana votes for governor this month*, and intrepid Times-Picayune political reporter Julia O’Donoghue decided to see what happens when local voters Google the two surviving candidates, Republican David Vitter and Democrat John Bel Edwards...
According to information from analytics firm DataPulse, Marco Rubio saw a big boost in website traffic during and after last night’s Republican debate: Assuming that some percentage of the new site visitors join his email list or even make a...
So, after months of public indecision and sustained media frenzy, Joe Biden is not running for president after all. Why did he decide to stay out of the 2016 ring? Some may say that it’s because of Hillary Clinton’s strong performance in...
Knowing that Twitter is a 2016 political battlefield, the Clinton campaign wants to send her supporters to the trenches. Shaun Dakin sends along this email he received after signing up to tweet on behalf of HRC: Hi there — Thank you for...
Update: Digital politics veteran Stan Olshefski checks to note that HE”S getting Bush campaign emails. Thanks, Stan! Crowdsourcing at its finest. Next question: why isn’t Shaun getting the messages? Database glitch? Deliverability...
Yussi Pick is an award-winning digital campaigner at Pick & Barth Digital Strategies based in Vienna, Austria and Washington, DC. Sign up for his weekly Campaigner’s Tips at www.campaigners.tips. Thanks to longtime Epolitics.com reader...
New Epolitics.com contributor Lizzie Kendrick is Director of Digital Engagement for The Campaign Workshop. Her post today draws from Campaign Workshop’s new ebook, “Ready, Set, Go! Jump-Start Your Political Campaign”. So, you’re...
Dave Leichtman is the Democratic Strategist for Microsoft’s Campaign Tech Services and the Vice-chair for Tech of the Democratic Party of Virginia. Read Dave’s previous work on Epolitics.com. In February 2014, to much fanfare, the...
How did I know that Rick Perry’s Presidential campaign ambitions were pretty much over, long before the headlines said so? His campaign had not sent an email since June 30th. Not a single one. In fact, the one single email that I received was...
Jim Walsh is the co-founder and CEO of DSPolitical, a voter targeted digital advertising network for Democrats and progressives. C.f. our earlier article on social media in the British 2015 general election. Politics in the United States and United...