If you’re running for office in 2018, what should you be doing right now? Former Congressional candidate Andy Millard and I talked through that question in detail on the sidelines of C&E’s CampaignExpo conference a couple of weeks...
Happy 4th! When Quick Hits returns from a long vacation, you KNOW it’s a day to celebrate. Jon Ossoff, The Congressional Candidate Social Media Built. C.f. How the Democrats’ Online Strategy Went Haywire. On Ossoff and emails, via Shaun...
This year’s congressional special elections have generated tons of media coverage, most focusing on implications for the 2018 midterms…and for the Trump presidency. But digital folks should note two important trends that I point out in...
When Hillary Clinton took the stage yesterday at a Recode conference, she also took the opportunity to blame DNC data for her loss last year, as Aaron Blake reports in the Post: I set up my campaign and we have our own data operation. I get the...
According to a new report from online advocacy platform EveryAction, that number may be 20%…or more. The 2017 Nonprofit Email Deliverability Study is the brainchild of deliverability guru (and friend of e.politics) Brett Schenker, and the...
Cool stuff on the digital advertising front today: the Montana Democratic Party is using DSPolitical’s voter models and targeting ability to put ads like this one in front of Montana voters who could lose health coverage if Republicans repeal...
Update: Bridge Project is also running digital ads targeting 24 House Republicans over the vote. James Hohmann and the Daily 202 crew at the Post bring us a nice scoop today: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is launching a digital ad...
Download your own copy of this poster from ResistHere.org For a liberal American, one of the few political joys of Trump’s First One Hundred Days has been the chance to watch the resistance to him and his agenda take shape. In just over three...
Donald Trump is fundraising gold — if you’re on his bad side. We’ve already seen activists pour money into advocacy groups like Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, in the latter case funding a massive expansion of their work. Via...
Donald Trump is trying to change America. In the process, is he changing political Twitter? News coverage of the social media platform itself often focuses on its financial woes, but in the political and cultural worlds, it reigns supreme as a tool...