A quick roundup of stories related to digital politics and online advocacy.
In which we lead with a story about Ebola, as is currently required by the state of media hysteria. How to Advocate on Ebola: National Nurses United. GOP Races To Catch Obama 2012 Campaign Data Techniques, a good look at data-driven TV buying. C.f...
A day late, but still ready to rumble. Why political fundraising emails represent everything that’s wrong with our politics. C.f. DCCC, I’m pleading with you and the recent Epolitics.com piece by Dave Leichtman and Brett Schenker. How...
Quick Hits returns! Update: In Defense of Political Email. Democratic House Candidates Are Walloping Republicans in the Small-Money Game. How campaigns are losing the mobile war. Mobile site fail, large-scale. Twitter users mock Colorado school...
Quick Hits: back from a late-summer vacation and ready to rumble. 2014 could be a $4 Billion Election. Meanwhile, Will field organizing yield Dems 1-2 points in close Senate races? Also note the Democratic money advantage, in part due to online...
The DNC Knows Everything About You. “Learning from the Obama presidential campaigns, the Democrats are rolling out a sophisticated national ground game they hope will get ‘souls to the polls.'” Ferguson Highway Patrol Captain...
In which our late-summer languor smacks right into reality. Social media has given black people in Ferguson what the police cannot. C.f. The Night Social Media Exploded Over Ferguson and Watch: The Night Social Media Lit Up as Violence Flared in...
URGENT: Democratic emails a fundraising bonanza. C.f. The scourge of small-money politics: is online fundraising actually a corrosive force? But tell me how could it be worse for our politics than this: GOP Kicks Off New Big Money Effort. Why the...
CIA admits to spying on Senate.Hacked into computers as aides assembled report on “enhanced interrogations.” Kansas Democrats Turn to Data in Governor’s Race and DCCC plans big turnout operation aimed at black voters. But beware...
Quick Hits returns! The best damn reading list for online politics and advocacy on the planet…or any other. This catch-up edition features a few links that have languished in the queue for months, along with plenty of more-recent content. Look...
In the Scripted World of Diplomacy, a Burst of Tweets. Less filtered: State Department official’s “F*ck the EU” conversation released on YouTube. Don’t be surprised if your TV soon seems to know everything about your politics...