Republican lawmakers intent on dismantling Obamacare face some serious hurdles, among them their own constituents angry at the thought of losing coverage and the difficult balancing act party leaders have created for themselves. With the House...
Congressional town hall meetings under siege about healthcare? It could be 2009, but it’s not — and the Congressmembers in question are Republicans, not Democrats. Like their Left-leaning colleauges eight years ago, some Republicans are...
“She was warned…she was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.†That’s what Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday when the Senate censured Elizabeth Warren. Her crime: reading aloud a letter from Coretta Scott...
Donald Trump’s nomination of billionaire school-choice advocate Betsy DeVos for Education Secretary does not sit right with many Americans. They’re not being shy about it, either: they’ve jammed the Capitol switchboard trying to...
While Epolitics.com was well into its post-election hiatus in December, I awoke briefly from an editorial slumber to write in Campaigns & eletions about the strange year political data had in 2016. My definition of “data” was...
Yesterday we looked at Donald Trump’s sophisticated Facebook infrastructure, which included targeted “dark posts” and an impressive program to recruit supporters and test content on a massive scale (175,000 variants in one day!)...
Facebook’s come in for plenty of criticism since Election Day, in part for its role in helping fake election news stories and conspiracy theories spread online in the months before Trump’s victory. But did the vast social network help...
Stuck in line at the polls? Relieve your boredom on Facebook. Unsure who’s running for anything other than president? Hello, Mr. Google. American voters will pull out their phones millions of times on Election Day, giving candidates hungry for...
If you can pull yourself away from desperately refreshing political news websites today, head over to Campaigns and Elections for a longer view of our political landscape. In this month’s Technology Bytes, we step back and think about the...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts from the 2016 presidential campaigns! The data is via our friends at CrowdTangle, and remember that these aren’t the top-performing posts in ABSOLUTE terms, since that would...