Following Twitter’s recent political ad cop-out, last week Google announced new restrictions on political advertising on its digital platforms, including YouTube. Unlike Trump’s favorite microblogging platform, Google will still allow...
Responding to criticism that they’ve ceded the field to Trump in battleground states while potential presidential nominees fight it out, Democratic groups went to Politico’s Maggie Severn this weekend to argue that they aren’t...
Top Photo: Leading a Republican voter to water Between now and Election Day 2020, Democrats have a lot of persuading to do. It won’t be easy — and Donald Trump is already well ahead of us. First, the problem: outside of the suburbs...
Epolitics.com contributor Dave Leichtman just wrote a piece for Campaigns & Elections highlighting new technologies that can help Democratic campaigns reach voters more effectively: relational organizing. As big data has become even bigger...
New Epolitics.com contributor! Erik Milman is a veteran opposition researcher who has worked on over 200 races. Find him at Milman Research and Consulting. As Democrats, we have often seen how the Republican attack machine and our own lack of...
This post originally ran on Epolitics.com on October 4, 2017. Let’s reread it now in the light of this week’s Manafort redaction disaster, in which we learned that Trump’s onetime campaign manager had passed polling data to a...
To get ready for 2018, the Democratic National Committee paid to find the cell numbers of every voter in America it could. Then, it passed them to the state parties as part of the master voter file candidates use for grassroots outreach and...
New Epolitics.com contributor Paul Van Remortel is a Senior Product Manager with Intermarkets and StandUnited, a center-Right petition website. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of citizens to petition the government...
In the last six weeks, it seems like not a day goes by that we don’t see a big change announced by Facebook or Twitter. It’s a lot to keep track of, so we’ve decided to start doing Platform Update Notes on Fridays starting today...
Most of coverage of Cambridge Analytica’s work with Trump 2016 and other campaigns has focused on the potential fallout for the president and his team or for the company itself. What about the implications for 2018 political campaigns? I...