Commissioner Amanda Fritz said a new system would help limit the influence of big money while better connecting candidates and voters.
Chuck’s obsession today: revisionist history about political wins and losses – and why we should all be a bit more humble about explaining the results of any election.
Many election seasons bring with them the same old song and dance. No, we don’t mean policy debates or constitutional interpretations — rather, the misuse of protected music by political candidates trying to create edgy and popular campaigns.
A list of 27 new political campaigns books you should read in 2020, such as Impeach, RIP GOP, Triggered, Leadership and Audience of One.
The unofficial kick-off for the election season usually begins at the Branford Festival as potential candidates meet with the public. This year was no exception as the...
Kellyanne Conway believes modern political campaigns need a female perspective. In a video released by the Republican National Committee on Thursday, Conway talked about what it means to her to be
Campaigns are Periscoping, Tweeting, Facebooking, Snapchatting and Instagramming. But campaigns and strategists say the biggest bang comes from new ways of using the ol' email list.
When every speech, appearance, and remark can be recorded for posterity journalists tend to take advantage of that fact, and politicians are becoming much more guarded.
From 2009 to 2012, Louisiana politicians used nearly $310,000 in campaign contributions to ride in Mardi Gras parades and attend or sponsor krewe balls, according to a review of campaign records by NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune and WVUE Fox 8...
A decade ago, when former Senate Majority Leader Chuck Chvala, D-Madison, was being prosecuted for secretly funneling money around campaign finance laws, some of the amounts were $50,000 and $75,000.
"AdExchanger Politics" is a weekly column tracking developments in the 2016 political campaign cycle. Today’s column is written by Chris O’Hara, vice president of strategic accounts at Krux. We have all heard about the Democratic Party’s skill with data, and there is no doubt the Obama campaign’s masterful use of first-party registration data to drive... Continue reading »
Political ads are often flashy and don't hold back on opinions. If you listen closely, many of those lack approval from a candidate. There's a difference in ads from candidates' camps and those that
Practical media strategy for candidates, campaign managers, and anyone considering social media for political campaigns.
Suez North America is the water company that serves 2 million people throughout New Jersey, including Jersey City. It's currently in the middle of new contract negotiations with the state's second largest city. In the meantime, it dropped a noticeable...
Democrat "MJ" Hegar faces an uphill climb in a conservative Texas congressional district.
Recent political campaigns have demonstrated how technologies are used to
boost election outcomes by microtargeting voters. We propose and analyze a
framework which analyzes how political activists use technologies to target
voters. Voters are represented as nodes of a network. Political activists reach
out locally to voters and try to convince them. Depending on their
technological advantage and budget, political activists target certain regions
in the…
A California politician will hold a drawing Friday for two really nice Super Bowl seats — after soliciting donations to a campaign fund. What he barely mentioned was that you didn’t have to donate to win.
The level of viciousness, verbal assaults, charges and countercharges that typified the presidential contest between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump have led many to decry the 2016 election campaign as the worst ever. But Aidan Smith, administrative assistant professor at...
Starting immediately, Democratic and progressive campaigns will be able to tap into the power of Facebook to take political organizing into the social realm. Democratic campaign...