A few weeks ago I asked if the 2014 elections would expose the limits of political campaigning, and guess what: they did. Democrats busted their butts on the ground this year, and unlike 2010, they didn’t lose for lack of trying. Even before...
Great advice from regular Epolitics.com contributor Laura Packard. This post first appeared on the PowerThru Consulting blog. Election Day is less than a week away (although with runoffs, who knows!). Say you still have some funds, but hardly any...
2008 canvassing image courtesy Wikipedia. This just in: NGP VAN reports that Democrats have made 54% more individual voter contacts in 2014 than at this point in 2010, the last comparable mid-term election. Dems are counting on these phone calls and...
New contributor but longtime friend-of-Epolitics Luis E. Hestres, PhD., is an assistant professor of communication at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has worked as a digital strategist for several progressive nonprofits, including...
Election Day is just a week away! So why are campaigns still asking me for money? After all, even last-minute TV and radio ads should be bought by now, the office rent paid and the last round of direct mail out the door, so what can campaigns still...
Obama 2008 Field Team Photo via Wikipedia/Flickr user Matt B. Ashley Parker and Jonathan Weisman of the Times went door-to-door with campaign field teams in North Carolina a few days back, and their write-up provides as good a description of the...
Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” Sherlock Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” Gregory: “The dog did nothing in the...
Interesting development on the Right: big donors seem to be encouraging Republican Independent Expenditure groups to move out of a TV-only organizing model. Shades of a grassroots superPAC, a la Ready for Hillary? Part of their motivation is...
Dave Leichtman is the Democratic Strategist for Microsoft’s Campaign Tech Services and the Vice-chair for Tech of the Democratic Party of Virginia. Read Dave’s previous work on Epolitics.com. As Colin noted last week, much hay has been...
A nice distinction came up in a conversation earlier this week: writing good headlines and subject lines is a creative art, but picking the right ones to use is pure science. Good headlines walk a tricky path in the digital world: they have to feed...