Over the past couple of weeks, the Democratic National Committee has sent out at least two emails raising money specifically to support a revived fifty-state strategy. According to the appeals, the party plans to play in every zip code in every...
Dave Leichtman is the Democratic Strategist for Microsoft’s Campaign Tech Services and the Vice-chair for Tech of the Democratic Party of Virginia. Read Dave’s previous work on Epolitics.com. In February 2014, to much fanfare, the...
Update: check out this clever parody site, ParaBellumLabs.org…well done! And why the hell didn’t someone at the RNC buy that domain? More fruits of the Republican effort to catch up with Democrats on the technology front: The RNC Tuesday...
Last October we talked about the Republican National Committee’s plan to build its grassroots/field and digital infrastructure, and according to The Atlantic’s Molly Ball, it’s beginning to work: At Thursday’s RNC meeting...
TWO separate little birds chose to fly through the ventilation slits in the e.politics bunker this morning, both bearing the following information: Change.org is officially helping Republicans recruit new grassroots supporters and donors, in this...
Interesting story from Rebecca Berg at the Washington Examiner a couple of days back: The Republican National Committee is taking a drastically different approach to spending its money in the upcoming mid-term elections next year, putting up more...
After a couple of cycles in which Republican online presidential campaign staff didn’t seem to know what hit them, a book about Obama 2012’s data and analytics operation is suddenly all the rage on the Right. NY Mag’s Steve Friess...
Update: As I was writing this piece, ANOTHER Emily’s List email hit my inbox…supporter-mobilization in action. Some of those crazy kids on the Right have been having fun lately…at least, what THEY consider fun. First up:...
The Hill reported this morning on a fascinating development in the internal Republican war over the strategy to threaten a government shutdown if Democrats won’t agree to “defund” Obamacare: Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio...
At one of this year’s many data-focused Netroots Nation panels, former Obama data guru Ethan Roeder noted something about the effective use of voter-targeting technologies: that’s it’s less about the data itself, and more about...