If it’s midnight in Moscow, what time is it in Kentucky? Via PoliticalWire, the Democratic PAC American Bridge has launched an extension for the Chrome web browser that will automatically replace the words “Mitch McConnell” in any webpage with “Moscow Mitch”. Yes...
Read More »Top Photo: This time, precise targeting was just a test. Regular readers know that I’ve been advocating for Democrats to launch long-term persuasion campaigns to reach people inside the Fox/Limbaugh/Breitbart bubble. Absent field outreach, paid advertising or the intervention of a friend...
Read More »Donald Trump’s first State of the Union Address takes place tomorrow, and with it comes a yearly tradition in the political advocacy world: SOTU rapid response. As I wrote a couple of years ago, For political communicators, this is a special time of year…one in which we get to earn...
Read More »Of course it’s a trick question, since the answer is always going to be, “it depends”. Your circumstances influence the balance point between data and content, but one is rarely as useful as it could be without the other. All the data in the world won’t help you if you...
Read More »Updated below. Unless you’ve turned off website notifications, here’s what you’ll see, in my case in the upper left corner: A website notification box, oh my. You can actually see it in Firefox as well as in Chrome now, assuming your system is so configured, since a...
Read More »Regular contributor Laura Packard spotted something noteworthy at the last Republican undercard debate: Rick Santorum invited viewers to Google his name. What? His Permanent Record had been permanently tagged years ago by a well orchestrated Googlebomb, which linked the word...
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