Daily Digest: Online Money Chase in Hyperdrive
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, February 7 2008
Emailing Democratic superdelegates; divining why Silicon Valley voting for Clinton; youth registration and voting keeps rising; rating the best political data visualizations; Obama and Clinton keep raising huge amounts ... Read More
Daily Digest: And It Keeps on Going
BY Joshua Levy | Wednesday, February 6 2008
Rounding up last night's results, explanations, and prognostications; what's CNN? Online politicos tracked the action with Twitter, Google Maps, Flickr, and YouTube instead; Hillary is favored by Microsoft employees, ... Read More
Obama, the Internet and the Decline of Big Money and Big Media
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, February 6 2008
If it were not for the internet, and all the campaign- and voter-generated activism that it has enabled, Hillary Clinton would already be the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee, and Barack Obama or another ... Read More
Daily Digest: Super Tuesday and the Hockey-Stick Candidate
BY Joshua Levy | Tuesday, February 5 2008
It's the big day! We'll be liveblogging here at techPres starting at around 7:30; "if web traffic equalled votes.." If only!; Barack Obama is officially the hockey-stick candidate; MTV's Street Team '08 fans out across ... Read More
Daily Digest: If Obama's a Mac and Clinton's a PC, McCain is... Linux?
BY Joshua Levy | Monday, February 4 2008
Super Bowl metaphors are employed to describe tomorrow's Super Tuesday's contests; Is Barack Obama Howard Dean on steroids?; Off The Bus pumps out citizen coverage of the Super Tuesday from across the country; Obama is a ... Read More
MTV/MySpace Postmortem: Change vs. Experience vs. Ron Paul
BY Michael Connery | Sunday, February 3 2008
Last night on MTV, four candidates presented young voters with their closing arguments and got another lesson from Ron Paul in how online organizing really works. Read More
Live Blog from the Final MTV/MySpace Dialogue
BY Michael Connery | Saturday, February 2 2008
Live blogging "Closing Arguments," the MySpace/MTV Super Dialogue featuring Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Ron Paul, and Mike Huckabee. Read More
Daily Digest: Hillary Reboots the Conversation
BY Joshua Levy | Friday, February 1 2008
Matt Bai talks to Tracy Russo, of the John Edwards campaign, about how to move on; Barack Obama and Ron Paul are added to the roster for MTV and MySpace's Closing Arguments event; MTV's Street Team '08 is armed and ready ... Read More
Our Favorite Videos of the Week: Who's Freefalling?
BY Joshua Levy | Friday, February 1 2008
It’s the last Friday before Super Tuesday — gosh, are we really here? — and we’re chock full of fun vids. Hulk Hogan “endorses” Barack Obama; Mike Gravel produces another talk/rap ... Read More
Daily Digest: Does McCain Get the Tubes?
BY Joshua Levy | Thursday, January 31 2008
According to a new poll 45% of voters think the next president will get the tubes as much as they do; the internet also makes you smarter; Patrick Ruffini hustles to get the GOP nominee some funds in the aftermath of ... Read More