If you can pull yourself away from desperately refreshing political news websites today, head over to Campaigns and Elections for a longer view of our political landscape. In this month’s Technology Bytes, we step back and think about the longer-term trends in digital campaigning. Was 2016...
Read More »Did you notice a little something extra at this year’s political conventions? I’ll give you a hint: some new players were involved, and they weren’t on the stage. Or rather, they weren’t on the stage in the room, but they often drowned out the campaigns and the parties in...
Read More »Last weekend’s Nevada delegate-selection dust-up seems to have tested the patience of many on the Left who’d been sympathetic to Sen. Sanders but who weren’t full-on Berners. The Daily 202 rounds up some high points from the resulting criticism, much of it pointing to the...
Read More »If the idea of a President Trump fills you with horror, you’re not alone: both Democratic and Republican groups are doing their best to take him down. Most of the coverage of their plans has focused on TV ads and grassroots organizing, but as I write in the latest Technology Bytes column at...
Read More »Presidential race drop-out Chris Christie endorsed Donald Trump this week, leading to a strange joint appearance that transfixed the internet. Those eyes! Those eyes! But while Christie’s love may have gone to Trump, his email list went to Marco Rubio…for a price. Why the split...
Read More »At the start of 2015, who’d have thought we’d be talking about political data on a Democratic debate stage? But December’s debate debut wasn’t the end of this political spat: as we discuss in the latest Technology Bytes, the Sanders/DNC/Clinton data debacle got even...
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