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The Ground GameNovember 13, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:21 AM/EST
The Man Who Saw the FutureFew people have had a better 2008 than Nate Silver. The 30-year-old numbers whiz fed exhaustive polling data and a half-century's worth of election returns into a model he designed, allowing him to call the presidential primaries and the general... November 10, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008 10:45 AM/EST
Science Backs Up Campaign ArtJoe Trippi told us before the election that a superior ground game could be worth 2-3% at the polls to a presidential campaign. TechPresident's Nancy Scola called that estimate "more art than science," which seemed fair enough at the time.... November 7, 2008
Friday, November 07, 2008 12:38 PM/EST
Building a Republican Machine OnlineThe manifesto for an RNC tech strategy I mentioned this morning follows a call by one of its signatories, Patrick Ruffini, for a new conservative blogosphere: Most conservative blogs are still stuck in 2003 -- both in terms of the... November 5, 2008
Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:31 AM/EST
The First Internet CampaignBarack Obama was elected for many reasons, but it seems clear that his campaign organization played an important role in his victory, and in some places perhaps a decisive one. That campaign organization was enabled to a great degree by... November 3, 2008
Monday, November 03, 2008 11:52 AM/EST
The First Internet Campaign"For many viewers, the 2008 election has become a kind of hybrid in which the dividing line between online and off, broadcast and cable, pop culture and civic culture, has been all but obliterated." Interesting article here. The crux of... October 28, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:09 PM/EST
Windows in the CloudThis is what a lot of us non-developers think of when we think cloud computing: versions of stuff like Office that run we know not where, but work wherever we are. Microsoft release. Arrington: "For most users this will be... October 22, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:13 AM/EST
Grading the Ground GamesMicah Sifry says a comparison of the Obama and McCain ground-game apps shows "a lopsided battle in their voter contact operations...Obama's tool is much more deeply embedded in the ecology of the internet than McCain's, by a factor of... October 13, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008 3:29 PM/EST
Yet More Ground GameAn overview of McCain and Obama campaign sites for volunteers. A look at some of the details of Obama's tech strategy, including text-messaging: "Obama's aides treasure data and contact information for voters in swing states, and text messages provide...
Monday, October 13, 2008 12:27 PM/EST
The Ground Game in Presidential PoliticsSuddenly, articles about the Obama campaign's vaunted ground game are everywhere. Most don't focus as heavily on the technology as we did, of course. Washington Post: "They've invested in a civic infrastructure on a scale that has never happened,"... October 6, 2008
Monday, October 06, 2008 9:51 AM/EST
Technology and the Political Ground GameThe Washington Post says Democrats have a big advantage in voter registration in key states -- the big task ahead is getting newly-registered folks to the polls. The role of technology is not mentioned, but I'm guessing it will...
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