What’s an internet Christmas without cats, lasers and a glimpse of impending Apocalypse? Genius! Happy holidays! And if you’re already hiding from your kid’s new drum kit, check out yesterday’s Quick Hits (campaign 2012 and...
An Epolitics.com Christmas present: lots of fantastic reading on the 2012 digital campaign. C.f. our earlier post-election Quick Hits, and also today’s Quick Hits Advocacy Edition. When the Nerds Go Marching In. Fantastic look at the Obama...
So much online politics goodness has built up since our last Quick Hits, we had to have two of them today. The list below has an advocacy/marketing slant; c.f. today’s Quick Hits Campaign 2012 Edition for terrific resources on the Obama and...
Howdy folks, the lastest Campaigns & Elections TechBytes column is out, and it’s all about the 2012 elections. Written just after Election Day, it focuses on a few of the tech tools that actually mattered in 2012, starting with social...
Also published on HuffingtonPost One major conclusion after sitting in session after session on the Obama campaign at RootsCamp 2012: at least as far as most of his digital campaign is concerned, the technology was a clear evolution from 2008, but...
Fan fave Quick Hits returns, this time rounding up some of the best post-election analysis of the digital campaign. Note the great coverage from Slate.com in particular, but there’s plenty of excellent reading below. A Vast Left-Wing...
Two days from the presidential election, here’s where we stand: tight in the popular vote, but with a small but consistent Obama lead in the bulk of the battleground states. Both campaigns are spending big money on TV ads, and Obama’s...
Taegan Goddard links to an Obama memo laying out the campaign’s case for the power of his grassroots field operation to turn out the vote: “This morning, as our volunteer Neighborhood Team Leaders opened 5,117 get-out-the-vote (GOTV)...
Here’s a quick example of how NOT to do GOTV — a Republican political “operative” (a word that always amuses me) has been flooding swing-state voters’ phones with spam texts detailing how horrible Barack Obama is...
Ah, sweet internets — you do have a way of picking out salient moments that our Official Information Gatekeepers might have missed in earlier times. Last night’s example? The “binders full of women” that Romney supposedly...