Cross-posted on K Street Cafe Check out this fascinating print ad placed by the National Association of Home Builders in today’s Roll Call, which starts out with quite a strong quote: “If this thing passes, I will buy immediately.”...
Remember that question about how Obama would use his online support after the elections? Here’s one answer: I just received an email from the president via the DNC list promoting house parties this weekend to help build national support for...
Cross-posted on K Street Cafe Congress does not lack for citizen input — every year, hundreds of millions of emails, faxes, letters and calls crashland on the Hill, and some congressional offices are so overwhelmed that they’ve basically...
The peasants are revolting! The latest evidence comes in a quick email from Convio, one of the online advocacy providers: Please be advised that the House of Representatives is currently imposing limits on inbound communications from constituents...
Sure, the elections have gotten most of the attention this year, but if nothing else could, the current crisis in the finance system has cut through the clutter to remind us that the REAL business of politics often comes after the ballots are cast...
Cross-posted on techPresident In today’s spirit of getting things done, let’s take a look next at how individual citizens can involve themselves in politics using the internet and do it effectively. So before we all stampede straight off...
Guess what — people who are trained to organize political action might just be able to hit back if you take ’em on. In the few hours since Republican V.P nominee Sarah Palin made fun of Barack Obama’s community organizer background...
Update: the straight dope from the instigator of the Lefty “Twitterbomb” against #DontGo, and additional coverage from tPrez. Man, this #dontgo thing certainly does seem to have the Rs fired up, at least the Rs who are on Twitter. If...
Cross-posted on techPresident Eight million list members. One million MyBarackObama members. Nearly two million Facebook/MySpace “friends.” A couple of million online donors. By the time November comes around, those numbers will have...
Several conversations over the past few days have kept coming back to the same point: in the online world, things that seem cheap often aren’t, and things that seem expensive may actually be the cheaper alternative. For instance, Eric Rardin...