Late in Christine Blasey Ford’s Senate testimony today, the Republican surrogate questioner asked questions getting at whether anyone was funding her effort to tell her story about Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assault, particularly if...
Call today a study in crowdsourcing contrasts. First, the good: public-interest news outlet ProPublica is asking citizens to help track political advertising by candidates and outside groups like SuperPACs (they need assistance because the FCC has...
ProPublica has tried to reverse-engineer an Obama fundraising email, different versions of which went to a husband and wife: Sinker and his wife weren’t the only ones to receive similar but subtly different emails from the Obama campaign...
Also published on The Huffington Post and techPresident The fruits of Eric Cantor’s new “YouCut” project made it to the House floor last week, with results entirely predictable: nothing passed, and it did so amid great partisan...
For more, see this take on the fundamental insincerity of YouCut Just got a call from a reporter looking for context on the latest pay-attention-to-me trick from House Republicans, announced today by Eric Cantor — they’re now going to...
CQ’s Daniel Newhauser picked up on a good story late last week — Minnesota Governor and presumed 2012 Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty has “crowdsourced” his backing, allowing his supporters to vote to decide...
Time for a little crowdsourcing, folks. Jose Antonio Vargas has pulled together his list of the Top Ten Moment online political moments of the past decade (with photos), and you get to vote for your faves. It’s Macaca Moment vs. The Dean Surge...
The e.politics bunker has reverberated lately with a familiar sound, words like “&%$#,” “*&%$” and “7%$#,” often combined into phrases like this: “you &%$#ing hateful little &%#@ing...
Here’s a clever little application from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: the Republican Apology Machine, which lets you send a nice note to Rush Limbaugh “from” any of several Republican notables (including Michael...