Also published on HuffingtonPost This week’s news that Obama’s 2012 campaign has already assembled a powerful army of small online donors — more than a million people have given him money so far, only half of whom did so in 2008...
Howdy folks, my first section for Campaigns & Elections magazine is out! The print version is in the mail and the online version is live. Check it out, in two parts: Online, 2012 Won’t Be 2008 Technology Bytes: Perry’s social...
Update: Apparently, this feature has been in the VAN since it started…which is even better. Political data nerds LOVE to use tools like the VAN backend voter management system to slice and dice outreach lists by all kinds of criteria —...
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Great Guest Author Roundup, a new stallion has joined the herd! Check out Derek Pangallo’s political advertising extravaganza below, inspired by an Allen West ad on Epolitics.com. Today’s Part One...
A new article from Google alum Chris Talbot, continuing the focus on getting out the vote in the last days before the election. Find out more about Chris at the Talbot Digital site and on Twitter. Also see his previous article covering online rapid...
Buried in a Times piece today on what they portray as an internal Democratic debate about tying Republicans to some of the more-extreme statements of their Tea Party compatriots: At the Democratic National Committee, aides already have started work...
Another guest article, our second this week! This one comes from my NMS colleague Matt DeLuca, and it originally ran on the NMS blog. Matt’s been a great source of Quick Hits ideas lately, but this is his first actual guest piece on Epolitics...
Reports of indictments against two Republican big donors may be breaking news this morning, but details of their political contributions are nothing new online: According to the Washington Post, “The SEC has charged Samuel Wyly and Charles...
Does online advertising affect voters’ perception of a political candidate? When combined with television ads, it does — at least, according to research conducted by Google, Centro and Global Strategy Group, who tested the effects of...
“Never reinforce failure” — an old military adage that’s equally applicable in the world of Facebook advertising. Why? Because Facebook wants it that way. Here’s the deal: Facebook charges for advertising on a sliding...