So, after months of public indecision and sustained media frenzy, Joe Biden is not running for president after all. Why did he decide to stay out of the 2016 ring? Some may say that it’s because of Hillary Clinton’s strong performance in...
Knowing that Twitter is a 2016 political battlefield, the Clinton campaign wants to send her supporters to the trenches. Shaun Dakin sends along this email he received after signing up to tweet on behalf of HRC: Hi there — Thank you for...
Update: Digital politics veteran Stan Olshefski checks to note that HE”S getting Bush campaign emails. Thanks, Stan! Crowdsourcing at its finest. Next question: why isn’t Shaun getting the messages? Database glitch? Deliverability...
Yussi Pick is an award-winning digital campaigner at Pick & Barth Digital Strategies based in Vienna, Austria and Washington, DC. Sign up for his weekly Campaigner’s Tips at www.campaigners.tips. Thanks to longtime Epolitics.com reader...
New Epolitics.com contributor Lizzie Kendrick is Director of Digital Engagement for The Campaign Workshop. Her post today draws from Campaign Workshop’s new ebook, “Ready, Set, Go! Jump-Start Your Political Campaign”. So, you’re...
Dave Leichtman is the Democratic Strategist for Microsoft’s Campaign Tech Services and the Vice-chair for Tech of the Democratic Party of Virginia. Read Dave’s previous work on Epolitics.com. In February 2014, to much fanfare, the...
How did I know that Rick Perry’s Presidential campaign ambitions were pretty much over, long before the headlines said so? His campaign had not sent an email since June 30th. Not a single one. In fact, the one single email that I received was...
Jim Walsh is the co-founder and CEO of DSPolitical, a voter targeted digital advertising network for Democrats and progressives. C.f. our earlier article on social media in the British 2015 general election. Politics in the United States and United...
The new 2016 digital campaigning guide covers a lot of online organizing and communications tools. From Meerkat to mobile giving, it dives deep into the digital politics ocean, and it surfaces with 100-odd pages of best practices and strategic...
Some interesting statistics flew in today via Lauren from CrowdTangle…note: all numbers may have changed somewhat by the time you read this, but the basic trends ought to be the same. Jeb Bush’s Presidential presidential announcement...