Obama 2008 Field Team Photo via Wikipedia/Flickr user Matt B. Ashley Parker and Jonathan Weisman of the Times went door-to-door with campaign field teams in North Carolina a few days back, and their write-up provides as good a description of the...
Interesting development on the Right: big donors seem to be encouraging Republican Independent Expenditure groups to move out of a TV-only organizing model. Shades of a grassroots superPAC, a la Ready for Hillary? Part of their motivation is...
We’ve talked already about early signs of the potential of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s field organizing to deliver votes in places like Iowa and North Carolina, but the SCALE of the operation they’re building is...
Update: The DSCC is apparently on track to have 4000 staff on the payroll by election day, about as many as the Obama 2012 presidential campaign. Last week we talked about one aspect of the Democrats’ plan to confound conventional wisdom and...
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...
Last October we talked about the Republican National Committee’s plan to build its grassroots/field and digital infrastructure, and according to The Atlantic’s Molly Ball, it’s beginning to work: At Thursday’s RNC meeting...
Good information is creeping out about how Democrat Terry McAuliffe used digital and data tools to win the Virginia governor’s race last week, and you can look for my analysis piece in the next issue of Campaigns & Elections mag...
Interesting story from Rebecca Berg at the Washington Examiner a couple of days back: The Republican National Committee is taking a drastically different approach to spending its money in the upcoming mid-term elections next year, putting up more...
Be sure to check out Ben Pershing and Fredrick Kunkle’s Post examination of voter targeting in the race for Virginia governor: Republican Ken Cuccinelli II and Democrat Terry McAuliffe are running parallel scavenger hunts for Virginians...
Howdy folks, the lastest Campaigns & Elections TechBytes column is out, and it’s all about the 2012 elections. Written just after Election Day, it focuses on a few of the tech tools that actually mattered in 2012, starting with social...