The latest from E.pol contributor Henri Makembe! Check out more from Henri at LocalPoliTechs and Twitter, plus his previous contributions to Epolitics.com Integrated GOTV: Getting Out the Vote Online Henri Makembe On October 14th, I had the...
One takeaway from today’s AMP Summit sessions so far — Google has seen such a surge of election-related online advertising that the company’s actually established a “war room” for the remaining weeks of the 2010...
Here’s a little something to check out if you have an ear free at 3 pm Eastern: Karen Jagoda’s Digital Politics Show will be covering late-race online fundraising and Get Out The Vote efforts with AOL’s Rena Shapiro (who I have on...
Also published on techPresident Update: See also Kate Kaye’s earlier coverage at ClickZ. Politico’s Morning Tech column has highlighted a clever use of mobile advertising in last week’s Florida primaries: As the Sunshine State...
Part Four of How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 What Dean and Kerry suggested in 2004, Barack Obama proved in 2008: an army of motivated online donor/volunteers can be a truly decisive force in politics. And with software designed to...
Online politics a progressive monopoly? Not in California, at least judging from the battle waged over the internet to pass Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in that state: The ProtectMarriage.com coalition used the...
In politics, what’s important isn’t always what you can see. And compared with television ads and campaign events, field organizing is invisible — reporters on the campaign bus can only see the end result, which is the crowd that...
Cross-posted on techPresident Got your attention with that headline, eh? No, I’m not saying the ‘net has jumped the shark or otherwise taken a stock market-like plunge as a political tool, but I AM saying that in the last weeks of a...
Interesting angle on email advocacy from the Obama campaign — today they used a message to their list to drive voter registration via the Vote For Change site [note the tracking code embedded in the landing page URL], while also explicitly...
Check out this smart little critter from Rock The Vote and Credo Mobile — it’s a customizable voter registration widget. When people click on the image below (which you can change to something matches your site), a DHTML window pops up...