With Bernie leading the polls and the Democratic delegate count, Bloomberg’s team seems ready to drop the leash on their opposition research team. On CNN earlier today (via PoliticalWire), a campaign advisor to the former New York mayor...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Erik Milman is a veteran opposition researcher who has worked on over 200 races. Find him at Milman Research and Consulting. As Democrats, we have often seen how the Republican attack machine and our own lack of...
Down here in the e.politics bunker, we are slowly escaping the coils of a nasty summer cold — hence the low level of recent posting, despite tonight’s “Trumpapalooza meets the 9 Dwarves”, aka the first full-on Republican...
Update: also check out a 2019 digital oppo piece discussing online public records like voter registration, lawsuits, tax payments and driving history. New guest article! Ben Donahower is an experienced campaign operative who runs Campaign Trail Yard...
Just launching today: VoterTide, which employs technology originally designed for the music industry and now being applied to politics. Journalists, bloggers and the rest of us can use the VoterTide’s basic version to follow the presidential...
New guest author! Steve Kleine is the Principal at Ensomo, a social media monitoring and analysis firm, and in the piece below he introduces us to the basic concepts campaigns need to know about this ever-more-important aspect of online...
My favorite overheard comment at Netroots Nation, said in reference to Roxanne Conlin, a Democrat challenging Chuck Grassley…a senator with a habit of shooting his mouth off online. Taking on an incumbent is rarely easy, particularly when...
One thing that’s been fascinating to watch over past few months has been the flare-up of brief discussions among both friends and strangers related to particular pieces of information posted on Facebook — usually a status update, but...