Congratulations to Andrew Yang! As of Monday, his campaign had raked in over $1 million in donations and at least 450,000 new email subscribers since he announced his Universal Basic Income giveaway (ten lucky winners will take home $1000 per month for a year). The contest gave him a good hook...
Read More »Hi folks, I went on Karen Jagoda’s Digital Politics Radio show a few days back, and in an action-packed sixteen-minute session, we talked about: Democratic debate/advertising strategies Financial dangers of fishing for donors in a small pond (see: Tom Steyer) Pattern of small-dollar...
Read More »Earlier this week, the public radion show Marketplace dove into the business of processing political donations online. Reporter Kimberly Adams pointed to the success of ActBlue on the Left and examined the Republican attempt to create a uniform digital-donation platform for their own campaigns...
Read More »New Epolitics.com contributor! Isaac Shalev is president of Sage70, Inc., a boutique consultancy providing guidance on digital strategy to nonprofit and public advocacy organizations. Recent reports from industry news sites, corroborated by personal reporting from professional colleagues, suggest...
Read More »My Twitter feed sparkled today with tweets, retweets and comments about my latest column for Campaigns & Elections, which talked about a fundamental difference between the ways Democrats and Republicans have historically built their email lists. Pivoting off a comment by a younger Republican...
Read More »In a move likely to please few people not on his payroll, wealthy Democratic activist Tom Steyer has joined the presidential campaign. Huzzah! And right after Eric Swallwell’s departure created a yawning gap in the Democratic lineup, with only two dozen candidates left standing...
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