Part Three of a six-part series With a team in place and technology under development, the Obama campaign wasted no time in building their most important resource: the list of volunteers who would work to elect the Illinois senator president. And...
This just in from the folks at the online bookie BetOnline.com: After his appearance at the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference), some say Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who most know by his political moniker, “Joe the Plumber”...
A Shailagh Murray/Paul Kane article in Thursday’s Post illuminates a serious problem for advocacy groups: Congress has so much on its plate this year that there’s little room left. With Democrats holding the presidency and running...
In a short break from the Obama lessons series, I just published a piece on the Campaigns & Elections/Politics Magazine blog — a review of GOP.gov, the new website for the Republicans in Congress. Not to give too much away, but the site...
Part Two of a six-part series Structure isn’t sexy, but to talk about the online tools of 2008 without discussing the framework that governed their use brings to mind a certain metaphor about forests and trees. ANYONE could employ most of the...
Part One of a six-part series Without the internet, Barack Obama would still be the junior senator from Illinois. Under the rules of the broadcast era of politics, a young man with a funny name and a couple of years in the Senate might run honorably...
Hi y’all, I’m fixin’ to publish the first of what’s planned as a six-part series on the lessons of the Obama campaign for other online communicators, political and commercial. The second article will go live tomorrow...
Political search advertising has come up a couple of times on the site lately, once in connection with the Obama campaign and once involving a 2010 Senate race. Even if you can’t make it to Search Engine Strategies in March, DC’ers still...
Bipartisanship as a political weapon, and the Republican counter-“strategy.” The eternal role of the personal in politics. At Obama’s first prime-time press conference, a blogger gets a nod, while Biden’s Office Holds...
For all the attention paid to the back-and-forth over the House and Senate versions of the economic stimulus bill, the version that REALLY mattered is the one that appeared last: the conference committee report. The early debate and early votes...