New contributor! Mukundan Sivaraj is a political and nonprofit communications expert at CallHub, an outreach platform that connects organizations with their supporters through voice and text messages. Today he takes on a big question for 2020: how do we mobilize voters by phone without turning...
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 »Trump’s reelection team recently conducted a nationwide test of the mechanics of getting his supporters to the polls: They activated tens of thousands of volunteers and tested phone bank capabilities and get-out-the-vote operations in every state in the nation. Before and after the...
Read More »Epolitics.com contributor Dave Leichtman just wrote a piece for Campaigns & Elections highlighting new technologies that can help Democratic campaigns reach voters more effectively: relational organizing. As big data has become even bigger, we’ve reached a point where national entities can...
Read More »Election Day’s a week away, but you still have time to create a basic plan to employ mobile and digital tools to get out your vote. Quick & Dirty Strategy Let’s start with whom NOT to contact. Don’t spend time and advertising dollars to reach your volunteers, your social...
Read More »Tuesday is the day: Alabama will choose either Republican Roy Moore or Democrat Doug Jones to take the Senate seat Jeff Sessions abandoned to become U.S. Attorney General. Moore’s repellant past has dominated the national discussion about the race, but victory or defeat will come down a...
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