A good week on the media front! Check out Andrew Marantz’s in-depth piece on Brad Parscale, which went live on Monday and is apparently in the current print edition (I need to go pick one up). I have a couple of quotes talking about Democratic problems with long-term persuasion in a primary...
Read More »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 »Iowa, thank you for reminding us of a fundamental truth about political tech: test it before you need it. On edge since Election Day 2016, Democrats wanted the Iowa caucus to show us something, SOMETHING! definitive about how we will end the Trump Era. Instead, we get results delayed by a...
Read More »Earlier this week, The Daily Beast reported that the DNC plans to add the cellphone numbers of millions of Americans to the voter file: The Democratic National Committee is dropping “six figures†to acquire “tens of millions†of cellphone numbers through a variety of vendors, the group...
Read More »The Republicans finally have an answer to ActBlue, the Democratic fundraising platform that’s super-charged grassroots online fundraising up and down the ballot on the Left. The new Republican toolset is called WinRed, and crucially, it will include one-click donations processing. Why is...
Read More »This article first appeared on the Smart As A Fox blog. Over the last five years, I’ve noticed certain text-messaging mistakes organizations consistently make. It doesn’t matter if they’ve been running their mobile programs for several years or if they’ve just launched...
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