Can you build a non-ideological online apparatus?
Matt Stoller says no. But he had a group to work with. What do we do? More on this later.
Online right: Solving problems versus getting headlines
Ultimately, politics comes done to winning two kinds of votes: elections and legislative votes. So when I see discussions about comparing the right and the left online, especially the current flavor du jour about a right’s YearlyKos, I want to make sure that a question is asked: what is it Read more
Romney, Paul, and the road to Ames
So Mitt Romney has won a number of straw polls by packing them. Reporters get the joke and have stopped covering them, but the Romney campaign knows that it can put these victories on mail pieces and ads. Normally, the question is whether the damage that occurs over the bad Read more
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YouTube debate splits elites and base. That’s good
Now, I was not a big fan of the CNN/YouTube debate. I largely agree with the criticism that CNN used their editorial ability to pick questions that they couldn’t ask as reporters. That said, I was struck by something this morning. Somehow this seemingly trivial debate managed to get Barack Read more
Who said conservatives can’t organize on facebook?
Errr. Conservatives, as in the Conservative Party of Canada: H/T to my friend Stephen, north of the border.
More on the Obama voter issue
Remember all that blabber about Barack Obama getting so much Facebook support? Recall Patrick Ruffini’s recent discussions about who Obama’s voters are? He said this: See, Barack Obama has mobilized people, even if he hasn’t mobilized the netroots. He’s brought in students, African Americans, and apparently, young females. These are Read more
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Romney campaign official calls Brownback “bottom feeder”
UPDATE: GOPProgress and Jim Geraghty have now written on this. Earlier in the week, Mitt Romney released his National Faith and Values Steering Committee. In doing so, he entered a brave new world. Four of the people on the list are bloggers: – David French, Senior Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund, Read more
Pressing the flesh versus enhancing contact with technology
Justin Hart of MyManMitt makes an argument for why Fred Thompson is going nowhere if he uses the internet. This is, of course, correct, as far as he takes it… which isn’t very far. His position is a straw man. First, Thompson could do what Mitt Romney is doing, which Read more
Fred’s collecting different information
So, I went to sign in to Fred Thompson’s new website so see what was going on. And I was struck by this: They want my cell phone provider. With my phone number and my provider, they can send me free, for them, text messages. And they asked for my Read more
Romney’s tele-townhall’s and moving numbers
Marc Ambinder has an interesting post about Romney’s performance in Iowa. He argues that voter contact is what is moving the numbers. I have made a similar argument in the past. InMuscatine recently participated in one of the tele-townhalls in which Romney answers questions for about a while. After talking Read more