Widespread AI search is only a couple of months old at this point, but it’s already attracted plenty of criticism. From bad medical advice to worse cooking advice (gasoline WILL spice up your spaghetti, after all), the AI summaries that Google...
Photo: You don’t have to be an anime demon to build political tech, but it helps. I got my start in digital politics when cell phones were exotic. When downloading a good-sized jpeg took minutes. When email, websites and a handful of back...
Hi folks, the first thing I’ll be watching in the midterm elections is how well the mass of digital ads I’m about to launch will perform. Michigan, Ohio and Illinois voters, get ready. But this year’s elections should help answer...
Our poor email inboxes! If you’ve ever donated to a political campaign, yours has probably been filling up with fundraising appeals from groups you hadn’t heard about before they sent you a note. Political organizations have bought and...
Democrats didn’t win Georgia in November and again in January by accident. Those narrow victories followed years of political organizing by groups led by Stacey Abrams and others, including organizations focused on specific communities and...
Now that Twitter has banned its loudest voice, has the platform lost its status as a political tool? Not really, at least in the short run, I argue in my latest column for Campaigns & Elections. For one thing, DJT wasn’t the only one...
The past two years have taught political professionals some serious lessons. What happens when campaigns raise more money than they know what to do with? Unfortunately for Democrats, not always win. Also: the big gap between social media and the...
Billionaire and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this weekend that he’ll invest at least $100,000,000 in the state of Florida to help elect his one-time presidential rival, Joe Biden, beat Donald Trump. Say that again: one...
Turn on this week’s Democratic Convention and you’re going hear a lot about Joe Biden. You’ll also hear a lot about health care, the coronavirus, racial justice and guns. But behind the words and issues, I think the convention is...
In Campaigns & Elections this week, I explore a big question: what will a post-pandemic political campaign look like? My answers aren’t quite as far out as January’s predictions for the next decade, but they should give you a few...