The Hill reported this morning on a fascinating development in the internal Republican war over the strategy to threaten a government shutdown if Democrats won’t agree to “defund” Obamacare: Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio...
Last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the (roughly) 500 progressive groups followed by CrowdTangle: Forecast the Facts (1131x) Chesapeake Climate Action Network (86x) Americans Against Fracking (70x) Indiana AFL-CIO (65x)...
New feature! Our friends over at CrowdTangle have started collecting a list of “over-performing” nonprofit Facebook posts every week, and we’ll be publishing them on Epolitics.com henceforth. What’s an over-performing post...
Guest article! Good advice from our friend Laura Packard at PowerThru Consulting on how organizations and campaigns can use online advocacy to build their lists. For another recent example of this practice, see the success of NAACP’s Trayvon...
The Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman verdict dominated the news this weekend, with the internet no exception. Case in point: a petition on the NAACP site urging the U.S. Justice Department to file federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman...
Time for our first beach-reading recommendation of the summer! One great pleasure of last month’s “Data-Crunched Democracy” conference was the chance to hang out with Daniel Kreiss, who’s written a must-read book on...
Guest article! Let’s take a trip to the Big House with our friends from PowerThru Consulting, who’ve been kind enough to contribute several previous articles on email advocacy and list-building in the past. If you’re in email jail...
Guest article! Today’s announcement of the selection of a new pope inspired contributor Kayle Hatt to examine the Vatican’s rapid response communications, with an eye toward what advocacates and political communicators can learn. See...
Because too much digital politics is never enough. Update: Disgruntled Republicans Livetweet Obama’s Closed-Door Speech. Obama to Huddle With Organizing for Action Group today. Meanwhile, New Obama Nonprofit Worries Some Democratic Leaders...
Here’s a new-ish development over at Facebook that should be handy for political advertisers — Fb is now identifying users who are “politically active” based on their interests and interactions. Even better, they’ve...