Shortly before I headed to lovely California earlier in March, Sinclair Broadcast Group reporter Amanda Ota wrote up a long conversation we had about the White House’s social media full-court press around the nomination of Merrck Garland to...
Donald Trump may have backed down somewhat in his public spat with Pope Francis over walls and bridges, but let’s note a digital angle in all of this. As Reid Wilson pointed out on the Diane Rehm show this morning, the two infallible...
It’s the State of the Union, huzzah! For political communicators, this is a special time of year…one in which we get to earn our keep. Now that the internet has shrunk our rapid response cycles from hours to seconds, advocates use a big...
This piece comes to us from Jeanette Russell, a long-time Epolitics.com reader who’s now Marketing Director at Attentive.ly. Divisiveness doesn’t come about in politics just around election season — year round, there are topics...
With an eye toward today’s rapid response webinar, let’s revisit the Susan Sarandon-targeted paid sick leave campaign Beth Becker shared with us back in 2012. For more, see Political Rapid Response Now Happens in Seconds, Not Hours, In a...
Hi folks, things are hopping over here in the e.politics bunker: the consulting biz is humming, I’m doing a training for some potential candidates this weekend, the next TechBytes column is coming due, and the second webinar in the series...
The internet is a risky place to communicate: no matter what issue you’re talking about, online media bring out the ugly. Not just in politics, too, since anyone “lucky” enough to land in the news gets skewered for how he or she...
President Obama delivers the annual State of the Union address tonight, and professional political communicators all over DC are getting ready for the accompanying spin war. Here’s how I described that process a couple of years back: Hear that...
Rapid response in action! Within minutes of this morning’s Supreme Court decision striking down parts of the Voting Rights Act, while most analysts were still parsing it, this email landed in my inbox via the Democratic National Committee...
During last week’s Supreme Court arguments over California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, the internet exploded with support for marriage equality. Social media provided a particularly public venue, and as a Facebook...