In politics, what’s important isn’t always what you can see. And compared with television ads and campaign events, field organizing is invisible — reporters on the campaign bus can only see the end result, which is the crowd that...
Cross-posted on techPresident Got your attention with that headline, eh? No, I’m not saying the ‘net has jumped the shark or otherwise taken a stock market-like plunge as a political tool, but I AM saying that in the last weeks of a...
Check out PalinAsPresident.com, a great use of Flash to present a satirical view of Sarah Palin occupying the Oval Office — make sure your sound is on and just start mousing over things. Note that patient exploration will be rewarded...
Slate’s “Map the Candidates” has been around since the primaries, but it’s still a great example of a simple idea that’s nonetheless revealing — just a straightforward Google Maps interface that lets you see where...
Read Scott Martin has already picked up on the first Obama/Biden online display ad, which started running on Time.com at 5 Eastern this morning — only two hours after the veep announcement went out over text. Read cheekily describes it as...
Don’t miss today’s front-page Washington Post article profiling Virginia as a battleground state (now with working link — thanks, Dad). The discussion of demographics and voting patterns is political-junkielicious in itself, but...
Hey John, how’s things? Crazy year, eh? Sorry about last week — you must have been dying inside as the press fawned all over that pipsqueak Barack Obama on his overseas jaunt. Reporters are YOUR base, after all, and what’s worse is...
If you’re a whiz at constructing advocacy or fundraising email campaigns, the Obama campaign would like to chat — you’d better be willing to relocate to Chicago for a few months, though. Responsibilities will include planning and...
Cross-posted on techPresident First fruits of Netroots Nation — this morning, Chris Hughes and friend-of-e.politics (and new Obama campaign employee) Judith Freeman led an overview of how the nominee-to-be’s campaign has used social...
Perhaps the biggest-name speaker at Personal Democracy Forum this year was to be Elizabeth Edwards, blogger and wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards. Weather intervened, however, since a storm system interrupted flights and trapped her...