Every few months, I have the pleasure of joining Rick Morris for an extended conversation about the issues of the day. We met again virtually a few days back, for a conversation that ranged from Biden’s foreign policy to what happened in 2020...
The White House changed hands on January 20th, and so did all of social-media properties associated with it. As Laurence Dobbs covered in the UK’s Daily Telegraph around the time of the inauguration, this process was unusually fraught when one...
Last weekend I had the privilege of joining longtime friend-of-epolitics Rick Morris for another taping of the FDHLounge podcast. As always, Rick and I sprawled all over the political map, discussing everything from the conventions to the character...
Yesterday I chatted with Gray TV’s Jillian Angeline about the Arizona Senate race and voter turnout, and a point I raised made it into the final segment. While many voters will be reluctant to open their doors to campaign volunteers in a...
A hacked Twitter account won’t likely swing an election — but we should still act like it could. Not just campaigns, either: Facebook, Twitter and the other platforms need to prepare like the important infrastructure they’ve become...
Top photo: a good mask will scare the coronavirus away, or so I hear As America shuts down public events, limits handshakes and learns to practice “social distancing”, how can political campaigns and advocacy organizations adapt to the...
A good week on the media front! Check out Andrew Marantz’s in-depth piece on Brad Parscale, which went live on Monday and is apparently in the current print edition (I need to go pick one up). I have a couple of quotes talking about Democratic...
Hi folks, I went on Karen Jagoda’s Digital Politics Radio show a few days back, and in an action-packed sixteen-minute session, we talked about: Democratic debate/advertising strategies Financial dangers of fishing for donors in a small pond...
Earlier this week, the public radion show Marketplace dove into the business of processing political donations online. Reporter Kimberly Adams pointed to the success of ActBlue on the Left and examined the Republican attempt to create a uniform...
Voters usually think about ethics in moral terms: is this candidate or official a good person or not? Are they going to look after people like me or someone who’s given them money? Can I trust them to make good decisions? Ask a voter, and she...