New contributor! Crystal Borde is an associate director at Vanguard Communications, and she joins us with great insights about last week’s congressional live-streaming extravaganza, along with tips for communicators inspired to follow in the House Democrats’ footsteps. Also be sure to...
Read More »God is on the side of the big battalions, or so I hear. Photo via the National Archives. The announcement was essentially inevitable, but let’s still take note: Hillary Clinton can now tap the 20 million-odd supporter email addresses that President Obama’s 2012 campaign bequeathed to...
Read More »Chris Cillizza called it a declaration of war: yesterday, Bernie Sanders endorsed DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s primary opponent in her race to retain her House seat. Today, he followed it up with a fundraising email asking supporters to donate to his campaign: Splitting a $2.70...
Read More »Update: A reader writes in to point out that Trump DOES have a data operation whether he knows it or not, and it’s true that his campaign’s purchased voter information from L2. But, we don’t know how they’re really using it…if at all, at least in a significant way...
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 »Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the 2016 presidential campaigns! The data is via our friends at CrowdTangle, and remember that these aren’t the top-performing posts in ABSOLUTE terms, since that would almost always be dominated by the pages with the...
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