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...
Talking with several different groups lately, I’ve ended up using the analogy that online politics has more in common with trench warfare than it does with blitzkrieg (hmmm, maybe not bring that up with the Poles next time). What I mean is...
Cross-posted on techPresident Sunday’s announcement from the Obama campaign confirmed it: whatever other political roles it may play, the internet is one hell of a way to fund a campaign. Obama raised more than $150 million in September...
Cross-posted on K Street Café Well, at least we’ve gotten ONE thing settled this political year: we now know what e.politics actually IS. At least according to (former) reader-via-email-signup K— S——, who sent this friendly...
Hell of a season, eh? We’ve just about had everything — from lipstick on a pig all the way to a full-on financial panic, with two ongoing wars and the lingering effects of an oil-price shock playing in the background. Too much too much...
Cross-posted on K Street Cafe Even in the Early Days of epolitics.com, back when we powered the servers with wood, coal and fuel-grade mummies, plenty of people were already predicting the demise of email as a marketing/communications tool. More...
When a conservative national columnist, particularly one who had defended Sarah Palin at length, calls on the Republican vice presidential nominee to resign for her own good and that of the country, it gets noticed. But here’s another thing to...
Writing on 9/11 is always strange; a shadow lurks around every mental corner, and words seem to lack the needed gravity. We live our normal days wrapped in the familiar and the comforting, forgetting that civilization is a thin veneer, that...
(Hope I don’t have to eat my words on this one…. Update: Nope.) On the second night of the Republican Convention, let me depart from our normal programming here to predict that the Palin pick will be an absolute disaster for John McCain...
This piece was written early in July for inclusion in the E-Voter Institute’s 7th Annual Survey of Political and Advocacy Communications Leaders and 3rd Annual Survey of Voter Expectations. Incorporated into Harnessing the Power of Social...