Two weeks ago, Jon Stewart nailed the disconnect between what Obama’s campaign has asked of his supporters all year long and what he delivered himself at the first presidential debate: You and your campaign have demanded a level of effort...
Howdy folks, your redoutable Epolitics.com editorial team (i.e., me) is back from The Burn with about 2000 photographs and even more stories — some of which I might be able to tell in public! But for now, back to politics — and to the...
Epolitics.com is about to take a two-week hiatus (not for the conventions, either; I leave for the high Nevada desert and Burning Man shortly), so let me leave you with a few questions to occupy your mind in the meantime. As the 2012 election moves...
Guest article! Today we have another excerpt from Daniel Kreiss’s excellent new book, “Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama,” available in the Amazon store. This installment...
Also published on HuffingtonPost So! Here we are in early August, in the midst a presidential race that folks have been saying would be won by a razor-thin margin either way. Funny thing: if we can believe the polls, Obama looks to be opening a...
Our friends over at Salsa have been kind enough to put last week’s “Campaigning in 2012” webinar online, with the audio and the slideshow combined into a single YouTube video. After a couple of minutes of intro and some quick promo...
Tomorrow at 4 pm Eastern we get to have a little fun: the good folks at Salsa have asked me to lead a webinar on “Campaigning in 2012: Putting the Web to Work for Elections & Advocacy.” Here’s the blurb; the ideas involved...
New Version! Available now on Amazon.com and as a PDF This article is now out of date! Please check out the NEW ebook, “How to Use the Internet to Win in 2014.” Hell of a political year, eh? The president, 33 Senators, all 435 House...
New Version! Available now on Amazon.com and as a PDF This article is from an earlier ebook and is now out of date! Please check out the NEW ebook, “How to Use the Internet to Win in 2014.” Using the internet for politics may seem...
New Version! Available now on Amazon.com and as a PDF This article is from an earlier ebook and is now out of date! Please check out the NEW ebook, “How to Use the Internet to Win in 2014.” Once a campaign has the basic technology in...