Good information is creeping out about how Democrat Terry McAuliffe used digital and data tools to win the Virginia governor’s race last week, and you can look for my analysis piece in the next issue of Campaigns & Elections mag...
Smart use of email fundraising from the Daily Kos activism list today: they sent out a message this afternoon asking activists to support last-minute Get Out The Vote work on behalf of three separate several Democrats running for state legislature...
What does a modern political field operation look like? I argued the other day that four million donors, most of whom have given small amounts apiece, built the foundation for a powerful ground game that the campaign hopes will push Obama over the...
These are the simple ways technology can help get out the vote: check out the polling place/ballot info finder below, developed by the
Just in time for election day, NGPVAN has put out a new mobile tool that helps campaigns target voters who haven’t yet turned out. The cool part? The “Mobile Pollwatcher” integrates with the VAN voter database so that ALL...
Taegan Goddard links to an Obama memo laying out the campaign’s case for the power of his grassroots field operation to turn out the vote: “This morning, as our volunteer Neighborhood Team Leaders opened 5,117 get-out-the-vote (GOTV)...
Hard to believe, but election day is less than a week away, and across the country, campaigns and outside groups are running a full-on GOTV blitz. Let’s give ’em some help — below is a short list of useful online resources for...
New guest author! Check out Kate Kamber’s excellent overview of campaign mobile apps and the power of cell phones to help Get Out The Vote below. Also, be sure to look at Justin Justin Kutner’s past piece on social media photography on...
Whew! The day has finally come, and I’m so durn nervous about the results that I’ve barely been able to write. I’ve long been more sanguine than most, which is likely to prove to have been wishful thinking, but what the hell...
The latest from E.pol contributor Henri Makembe! Check out more from Henri at LocalPoliTechs and Twitter, plus his previous contributions to Epolitics.com Integrated GOTV: Getting Out the Vote Online Henri Makembe On October 14th, I had the...