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)...
Howdy folks, your redoutable Epolitics.com editorial team (i.e., me) is back from The Burn with about 2000 photographs and even more stories — some of which I might be able to tell in public! But for now, back to politics — and to the...
Hi y’all, a few weeks back I had the privilege of leading a talk on politics in 2012 — with an emphasis on people-powered digital politics — at a Network for Progress meetup here in DC. Most of the session was Q&A/discussion...
Hey kids! Tonight (Tuesday) I’m speaking at a Progressive Tech Meetup/happy hour at Public Bar. The subject? People-Powered-Politics, with a focus on how digital organizing can help us counter the wave of big-donor money that’s flowing...
Howdy folks, yes we are still alive down here in the e.politics bunker, despite all indications to the contrary — what with conferences, a day job and Campaigns & Elections demanding time, the site has had to take a back seat for too long...
Some of us in the online politics space have wondered what Obama 2012 would roll out to replace 2008’s MyBarackObama.com, and now we know: the Wall Street Journal has the scoop on the campaign’s new “Dashboard” grassroots...
Saturday’s Washington Post article about big conservative money flooding into House and Senate races is just the latest sign of this year’s changing post-Citizens United political landscape. The fear among Democrats? That wealthy...
Big day for technology rollouts! The Republican Party proudly released its new grassroots-engagement Facebook App today, which got coverage in a few outlets including the Christian Science Monitor, where I got a couple of solid quotes: “At...
Update: by popular request, here’s the link to the resource page referred to in the audio clip — I forgot it the first time around. Good news — our South by Southwest panel discussion on the Occupy movement as an example of the...
Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has already spent heavily on staff and infrastructure, but it’s revealing that they’re continuing to build the data-driven side of their grassroots operation. For a good example, check out the...