Sorry that I haven’t been posting so much, but I’ve been on the road. Today’s NY Times reports on the “September Fund” will try to spend $25m in the last 6 or so weeks of the election on ads and voter mobilization. There have been a number of interesting things Read more…
Bill Frist tried to take a little credit for tracking down the missing holding Senator. Note how he praises his volunteers: Led by sites like PorkBusters, TPM Muckraker, and GOP Progress, online activists across the political spectrum have worked to clear away the obstruction against this bill through hard work Read more…
The other day, ABP was telling us that McCain got the New Media. This was in response to my pointing out that a self-congratulatory Redstate writer thought McCain was going to get rolled by the blogosphere. Well, and you are probably sick of hearing this, McCain announced some new hires Read more…
This is finally an application of SMS in American politics that I believe in. Personal Democracy Forum has a post about registering single women to vote over SMS. Here’s a little bit about it: … text “SMS” to 75444. As you know, most of your friends probably have their cell Read more…
A couple of months ago, I had an argument with someone about the impact of Mitt Romney’s Mormonism on his campaign for President. In short, I wish it wouldn’t have any, but I think it will. Then I picked up a copy of the WSJ and started reading it and Read more…
There has been much discussion today of McCain’s frontrunner status. Today’s granddaddy article on McCain has to be the NYT’s piece on all the people that he has recruited. It was mostly a list of Washington Insiders. Other stories have pointed out that he has been lining up people in Read more…
There have been plenty of stories about sexual predators using Facebook and Myspace. However, with this cycle, we are seeing stories about candidates and organizations recruiting volunteers via Facebook. Here’s one from Kentucky (H/T: Truthcaucus): Becker said he learned of politicians on Facebook from Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., who on Read more…
The “insurgents” ran very good campaigns. But we learn very different things from them. First, CT Senate. Ned Lamont, the darling of the lefty blogosphere, had a lot of good campaign ideas. People have talked about all the blog stuff and YouTube stuff (NPR/Slate on this). But, perhaps more to the Read more…