Wow, here’s a sign that online political fundraising has gone full-on mainstream: Democratic campaign finance website ActBlue announced today that it’s reached the impressive total of 1,000,000 individual donations (an excuse for a...
Though he was against it before he was for it, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez has now embraced Twitter with glee and vigor, rising to become the most-followed person in his country within days. Of course, Twitter’s a natural choice for a public...
Also published on The Huffington Post At dinner the other night, a friend and I ended up talking about ways to drag one of the more hierarchical and hidebound segments of the Progressive Movement (a.k.a. The Great Leftist Conspiracy) into the modern...
California, batten down the hatches and hide the children — the Demon Sheep is loose on the land again. And now he’s shearing the hand that once fed him, as this time it’s former patron Carly Fiorina wilting under his baleful...
Here’s a quick point that never hurts to repeat: asking people to send a message to Congress through an online advocacy system mean that you have to DELIVER the emails via the internet. In fact, it’s usually more effective to print them...
Hi folks, this just in from ClickZ‘s crack political advertising reporter, Kate Kaye: As you may know, ClickZ is putting together a free resource for political campaigns set to publish in May called “Digital Political Campaigns 101...
Be sure to check out Charles Cooper’s piece on CBSNews.com about the online fight over Arizona’s new immigration enforcement law, both because it’s good and because it features two big, fat e.politics quotes. Cooper dropped me a...
This question’s come up a couple of times lately, most recently when I was meeting with a group of Maryland political candidates last week — should political campaigns focus their online advertising on Google or Facebook? The answer, of...
[Now Updated — see below] In the company’s never-ending quest to monopolize our attention online, Facebook has now unveiled an entirely new feature: “Community Pages” on popular topics. What’s the difference between a...