News came late last week that Joe Biden would in fact rely on an in-house digital team rather than outsourcing his online outreach to Mike Bloomberg’s Hawkfish campaign startup. Many in the field thought that hiring a firm with little...
Facebook just announced that it will start allowing users to opt out of political advertising, though it hasn’t yet said when or how. Will this decision cripple digital campaigning in a presidential election year? First question: how many...
Over the weekend, Politico’s David Siders examined the coronavirus as a wild card for political campaigns. Let’s focus on one possible effect: will the virus drive candidates out of the real world and onto the internet? Most political...
With Bernie leading the polls and the Democratic delegate count, Bloomberg’s team seems ready to drop the leash on their opposition research team. On CNN earlier today (via PoliticalWire), a campaign advisor to the former New York mayor...
Iowa, thank you for reminding us of a fundamental truth about political tech: test it before you need it. On edge since Election Day 2016, Democrats wanted the Iowa caucus to show us something, SOMETHING! definitive about how we will end the Trump...
Top photo: Obama field team in 2008 With Democrats deep in their presidential nominating process, Donald Trump can push his messages in battleground states with little answer from candidates focused on opponents from their own party. We’ve...
Earlier this week, The Daily Beast reported that the DNC plans to add the cellphone numbers of millions of Americans to the voter file: The Democratic National Committee is dropping “six figures†to acquire “tens of millions†of cellphone...
Trump and the Republican party have used the impeachment process as a fundraising hook since Nancy Pelosi launched the inquiry back in September, but they’re not the only ones profiting from his supporters in this political moment. Maggie...
Trump’s reelection team recently conducted a nationwide test of the mechanics of getting his supporters to the polls: They activated tens of thousands of volunteers and tested phone bank capabilities and get-out-the-vote operations in every...
In a move likely to please few people not on his payroll, wealthy Democratic activist Tom Steyer has joined the presidential campaign. Huzzah! And right after Eric Swallwell’s departure created a yawning gap in the Democratic lineup, with only...