Sarah Lai Stirland continues her excellent coverage on the online component of the 2008 election with a profile of homeschooled evangelical twins who are key to Mike Huckabee’s online support — and its conversion into offline action...
In the spirit of not wanting to kick a dog when he’s sad and ailing, I have avoided saying anything unpleasant about Unity ’08 in quite a while. But an email today from its founders endorsing Michael Bloomberg has forced me to reconsider...
If there’s any piece of the primary season frenzy that seems designed to drive voters insane, it’s the unsolicited phone calls. The ones from real people are bad enough, but robocalls were clearly invented by someone with a deep hatred...
Garance Franke-Ruta wrote up a genius new bit of citizen activism in The Trail last night: a self-described “dude you’ve never heard of” named Andy Cobb has posted a video on YouTube laying out the case for Democrats crossing over...
At last week’s tech project management workshop, a software developer from Community IT Innovators talked about a worldwide collaboration that’s plenty nerd-cool but also gives political communicators something to chew on. Late last...
Obama Gets Mobile Right. Hooray for technology! Or maybe not. Backlash over anti-Obama email in New Hampshire Someone’s keeping the faith: Email details Huckabee’s Michigan evangelical turnout operation. Clinton’s Fund-raising...
Hi y’all, I’m in NYC for that nonprofit technology conference for the next couple of days, so e.politics will be on an irregular publishing schedule for a bit.
– cpd
Thank you, New Hampshire, for making up your own minds rather than listening to political “analysis” and hype. You confounded the people who insisted on jabbering at us about “what Iowa meant” for the last few days, and you...
That little orange button on the right isn’t a lie — it’s been a long time coming, but e.politics is now a full-time consulting business. As of January 1, I left my day job at the National Environmental Trust to devote my time to...
Longtime friendly-rival-of-e.politics Jason Z passes on a story that has been picked up with some glee by several lefty blogs as well: RedState.com got stuck with website technology that doesn’t quite work as planned and would like its readers...