Dave Leichtman is the Democratic Strategist for Microsoft’s Campaign Tech Services and the Vice-chair for Tech of the Democratic Party of Virginia. Read Dave’s previous work on Epolitics.com. As Colin noted last week, much hay has been...
In the Scripted World of Diplomacy, a Burst of Tweets. Less filtered: State Department official’s “F*ck the EU” conversation released on YouTube. Don’t be surprised if your TV soon seems to know everything about your politics...
Poster child for brain-dead TV-buying, 2012 edition A couple of recent articles have highlighted a flood of money entering Senate races via “independent expenditure” groups, some of them narrowly focused: By the fall, political...
First Quick Hits of 2014! Now that a long queue is cleared, these roundups will move to Fridays again. ElectionMall’s Ravi Singh is Probably Going to Jail. An online petition and a Twitter campaign break up a beautiful friendship between...
With the year-end online fundraising blitz still in full effect, let’s look at a clever way to hijack the lists of some of those groups now filling our email inboxes to the brim. I don’t remember who taught me this one (I think I heard...
Howdy Mitt, not sure if you’ve noticed (oh wait, in theory you have), but we’re living in an era in which the camera is ALWAYS on. Here are just a few Epolitics.com articles on the nature of politics in an era in which a...
Quick Hits returns! Twitter Deputizes Millions of Pundits During Political Conventions. C.f. Postcards From the Parallel Universe in Real Time and Obama’s DNC speech sets new political record on Twitter. Google searches for “register to...
Here’s a fun (and fundamental) mistake to avoid: don’t promote a web address for your campaign until you’re sure you’ve actually bought it…. You see, the New Jersey branch of Americans for Prosperity recently launched a...
So THAT’S what a month’s worth of Quick Hits looks like. Gingrich to announce for president via Facebook and Twitter. Update: An appropriate response. Understanding the Staggering Spread of Keith Urbahn’s bin Laden Tweet and Bin...
Lots of folks have been having some good, clean fun diving into the details of the recent phone exchange between Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Ian Murphy, a blogger posing as Tea Party financier and liberal bogeyman David Koch. The individual...