Our friends at the Pew Internet and American Life have put together a handy new infographic that covers much of their recent data on how we’re using digital technology in politics. What percentage of Twitter users are liberal? The answer might surprise you — as might the percentage of...
Read More »What’s the matter with Kansas? Apparently, voter fraud: check out the image below, from Slate.com, the New America Foundation and News21, and see what you think (note: click-and-hold to move the map around and see the whole country, as with a normal Google Map). But first, note that the...
Read More »Very few people have ever used “cool” and “redistricting” in the same headline, but longtime readers will know that I’m a bit of a redistricting nerd — my first substantive political experience was as staffer in the Texas Legislature during a 1992 redistricting...
Read More »Infographics are all the communications rage these days, in part because of the visual emphasis of sites like Pinterest and the new(-ish) Facebook Timeline layout. But what makes a good infographic good? For a recent example, let’s use something from my day job: the National Women’s...
Read More »Update: Cong. Paul Ryan, the budget-cutter par excellence, thinks the “Life of Julia” is “creepy” and “demeaning” to women. Hit a nerve, much? (Via Greg Sargent.) Women are a key consituency for the Democrats this Fall, and it’s no surprise that the Obama...
Read More »Absolute genius from The Oatmeal — we talk about best practices all day long here at Epolitics.com, but this cartoon says it more eloquently than I ever could (be sure to click through to the full version if you’re on the E.pol front page and just seeing the first panel below.) Thanks...
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