This article is an excerpt from the upcoming 2020 edition of How to Use the Internet to Change the World – and Win Elections. In just two months, the coronavirus pandemic has already upended the plans of political campaigns and advocacy...
In this edition: 73 good stories related to digital politics and advocacy. How do you mobilize people during a pandemic? C.f. How To Connect With Audiences Sheltering In Place. Guide: Political Campaigning in the Time of Social Distancing. As...
Coronavirus may have most of us sheltering in place, but advocacy hasn’t stopped. For one thing, I’m hearing that Congressional staff are still on duty, just mainly stationed at home for a while. With that in mind, let’s check out...
Over the weekend, Politico’s David Siders examined the coronavirus as a wild card for political campaigns. Let’s focus on one possible effect: will the virus drive candidates out of the real world and onto the internet? Most political...
Quick Hits returns! In this edition: 75 excellent stories related to digital politics and advocacy. The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President. “Scholars have a name for this: censorship through noise”. A multi...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications, LLC. Check out his recommendations for list-building via digital ads below, and when you’re done, be sure to browse past Epolitics.com...
“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.” – Erich Fromm Danger? Or opportunity…. With that in mind, I offer you my look at the next ten years of digital...
Republicans keep outspending Democrats on persuasion advertising, and this time it’s not just the president: The difference is especially stark on Facebook, where more than 100 congressional Republican incumbents and challengers and national...
My Twitter feed sparkled today with tweets, retweets and comments about my latest column for Campaigns & Elections, which talked about a fundamental difference between the ways Democrats and Republicans have historically built their email lists...
Hi folks, I’ve been exploring some easy livin’ post-Netroots, but even a fine summer slow must end sometime. Let’s start off running with an idea I wrote up for Campaigns & Elections a few weeks back: what new political tech...