Billionaire and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this weekend that he’ll invest at least $100,000,000 in the state of Florida to help elect his one-time presidential rival, Joe Biden, beat Donald Trump. Say that again: one hundred million dollars and probably more. The bulk...
Read More »Turn on this week’s Democratic Convention and you’re going hear a lot about Joe Biden. You’ll also hear a lot about health care, the coronavirus, racial justice and guns. But behind the words and issues, I think the convention is trying to convey a silent message: competence...
Read More »In Campaigns & Elections this week, I explore a big question: what will a post-pandemic political campaign look like? My answers aren’t quite as far out as January’s predictions for the next decade, but they should give you a few ideas to chew on. What does media-buying look like...
Read More »Top photo: George Floyd memorial in Minneapolis. By by Lorie Shaull via via Wikipedia. Despite a pandemic, Americans gathered in vast numbers over the past few weeks to protest the deaths of George Floyd and other people of color at the hands of police. Without social media, though, those streets...
Read More »“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.” – Erich Fromm Danger? Or opportunity…. With that in mind, I offer you my look at the next ten years of digital politics and advocacy, now live on the Campaigns...
Read More »Hi folks, apologies for being awol for so long. After the book party, I was burned out and needed a break. Unfortunately, that turned into a spiral of procrastination, angst, wailing, moaning, gnashing of teeth and other fun times. Last week, I broke through the barrier and cranked out a...
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