In one of the more bizarre political inversions of the 2020 campaign, Republicans claim that their superior field organizing will make up for Donald Trump’s consistent lag in the polls. With Biden’s field organizers leery of face-to-face voter outreach during a pandemic, will the...
Read More »Top photo: Obama field team in 2008 With Democrats deep in their presidential nominating process, Donald Trump can push his messages in battleground states with little answer from candidates focused on opponents from their own party. We’ve covered the targeted digital advertising campaigns...
Read More »Earlier this week, The Daily Beast reported that the DNC plans to add the cellphone numbers of millions of Americans to the voter file: The Democratic National Committee is dropping “six figures†to acquire “tens of millions†of cellphone numbers through a variety of vendors, the group...
Read More »Following Twitter’s recent political ad cop-out, last week Google announced new restrictions on political advertising on its digital platforms, including YouTube. Unlike Trump’s favorite microblogging platform, Google will still allow ads from political campaigns and and...
Read More »Responding to criticism that they’ve ceded the field to Trump in battleground states while potential presidential nominees fight it out, Democratic groups went to Politico’s Maggie Severn this weekend to argue that they aren’t simply sitting on their hands: Democratic super PACs...
Read More »Top Photo: Leading a Republican voter to water Between now and Election Day 2020, Democrats have a lot of persuading to do. It won’t be easy — and Donald Trump is already well ahead of us. First, the problem: outside of the suburbs, Democrats aren’t winning many white voters...
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