Yesterday I suggested that the Georgia senate runoff races have likely siphoned away donations that otherwise might have landed in nonprofit coffers in the last weeks of 2020. But while Ossoff and Warnock may compete with nonprofits for...
My email inbox cries every day, battered by endless reminders that Control Of The Senate Is On The Line, We Are Being Outspent and You Can Make a Difference if you Let Me Level With You about the latest Bad News. If you thought online fundraisers...
After Joe Biden nailed down the Democratic presidential nomination almost a year ago, many worried that Donald Trump’s online disinformation machine would make short work of him. As the election season built toward the fall and Trump’s...
This year I got to do serious political campaign work for the first time. Yes, I’ve been deep in the world of digital political advocacy for more than two decades, and I’ve helped out on small campaigns in the past, but this election...
Axios reports today Google will finally lift its post-election U.S. political ad ban starting tomorrow, December 10th. Political organizers working on January’s Georgia Senate special will now be able to run ads on Google search, YouTube...
Most of you will have read by now that former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale (the first digital director to run a major presidential campaign) was tackled by police and forcibly committed over the weekend after he threatened to kill himself...
Quick to capitalize on the New York Times’s revelation that Donald Trump has paid little or no income tax over recent years, the Biden/Harris campaign has launched its own Trump Tax Calculator. Enter the top-line number from your tax bill, and...
Hi folks, apologies for the sparse posting other than the top ten lists lately. This year I’m doing a ton of election-related work helping to elect Democrats, and it’s taken up most of my brain the last few weeks. Also, my apartment got...
Check out the last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the Trump and Biden campaigns, using data from our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their...
In one of the more bizarre political inversions of the 2020 campaign, Republicans claim that their superior field organizing will make up for Donald Trump’s consistent lag in the polls. With Biden’s field organizers leery of face-to-face...