After a couple of cycles in which Republican online presidential campaign staff didn’t seem to know what hit them, a book about Obama 2012’s data and analytics operation is suddenly all the rage on the Right. NY Mag’s Steve Friess...
Molly Knight Raskin has a completely unexpected 9/11 story in Slate today, about the man who was quite likely the first victim of that morning (a former member of an Israeli counter-terrorism team who happened to be on board the flight that would...
Update: As I was writing this piece, ANOTHER Emily’s List email hit my inbox…supporter-mobilization in action. Some of those crazy kids on the Right have been having fun lately…at least, what THEY consider fun. First up:...
The Hill reported this morning on a fascinating development in the internal Republican war over the strategy to threaten a government shutdown if Democrats won’t agree to “defund” Obamacare: Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio...
A small milestone slipped by unnoticed a week or two back: the seven-year anniversary of the launch of Epolitics.com. Wow! In that long-ago summer of 2006, George W. Bush was President, the Republicans controlled Congress, YouTube was a year old...
So, here’s one way Organizing for America (which runs the former Obama campaign supporter list) is going to use its grassroots base: pressuring Congressmembers in their districts during the August recess. From OFA’s Jon Carson: Friend...
Sunday night I transferred my Google Reader information to Feedly — with only hours to go, the long list of digital-communications-related sites I’d signed up to follow was safe. But it was clear that the same couldn’t be said of...
Rapid response in action! Within minutes of this morning’s Supreme Court decision striking down parts of the Voting Rights Act, while most analysts were still parsing it, this email landed in my inbox via the Democratic National Committee...
Quick Hits returns, well rested and ready to rock. Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page Slam ‘Outrageous’ PRISM Reports, C’mon folks — THEY get to use our data for their own purposes. White House, House GOP trade three-word barbs over...
Good stuff dropped into the e.politics bunker today — a new nonprofit online video benchmarks report, put together by the folks at See3, YouTube and Edelman. I just pulled down my own PDF copy of “Into Focus: Benchmarks for Nonprofit...