2008 canvassing image courtesy Wikipedia. This just in: NGP VAN reports that Democrats have made 54% more individual voter contacts in 2014 than at this point in 2010, the last comparable mid-term election. Dems are counting on these phone calls and...
Election Day is just a week away! So why are campaigns still asking me for money? After all, even last-minute TV and radio ads should be bought by now, the office rent paid and the last round of direct mail out the door, so what can campaigns still...
Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” Sherlock Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” Gregory: “The dog did nothing in the...
We’ve talked repeatedly in these pages about the Democratic advantages when it comes to the actual mechanics of running political campaigns this cycle: they’re running more ads, building a strong voter contact program and raising more...
New guest author Dave Leichtman (Strategic Advisor for Democratic Campaigns in Microsoft’s Campaign Tech group and Vice-chair for Tech of the Democratic Party of Virginia) explains why last night’s NGP VAN technology rollout is a Big...
We looked earlier at C&E Magazine’s coverage of a Facebook API change that gets rid of a popular way to connect Facebook to a voter file, but that wasn’t the only juicy story in this issue’s Technology Bytes column. We also...
A few days back, A Loyal Reader sent over a story that should have gotten more attention than it did. It turns out that Thad Cochran didn’t just make good strategic decisions, like courting Democratic voters in a Republican primary; his...
We’ve talked before about the key question in American politics in 2014: will this year’s electorate look more like the people who elected droves of Republicans in 2010 or those who reelected Barack Obama in 2012? Democrats are working...
Election season has come to the tree-shaded (and recently snow-shrouded) streets of the District of Columbia, and with it a flurry of Facebook Ads. Just a few years ago it was noteworthy for a local-level political campaign to experiment with...
The big news in the domestic political campaign world late last week was the announcement that the 2012 Obama campaign’s trove of data and technology would be released for use by other Democrats in 2014. For details, check out Kate...