From the Tea Party to Progressives, Outside Groups Look Online to Train New Candidates
BY Miranda Neubauer | Friday, April 20 2012
As city and state legislatures become battlegrounds where the political right and left do combat over education reform, labor organizing and social issues, outside groups from both sides are looking online for recruits to fill their ranks of local elected officials.
Read MoreUsing Voter Data, Evangelical Group's Casting a Net for Christian Voters
BY Nick Judd | Tuesday, February 28 2012
NPR's All Things Considered's got an interesting story up today about United in Purpose, a data-mining operation looking to identify evangelical Christians who aren't registered to vote and turn them out at the polls. The group, United in Purpose, also promotes an online platform where anyone can sign up to knock on doors and make phone calls to likely Christians, encouraging them to vote. Read More
With Crowdverb, GOP Geek Squad Aims to Match Dems Datum for Datum
BY Sarah Lai Stirland | Thursday, February 16 2012
Cyrus Krohn is the co-founder of Crowdverb, a sort of Justice League of Republican digital operatives assembled into a new Seattle-based startup in time for the 2012 presidential campaign. The team already lists the super PAC American Crossroads and conservative publishing groupEagle Publishing as clients. Read More
How Campaigns Use of Facebook Data Might Change the 2012 Election
BY Nick Judd | Monday, October 10 2011
More than in any other race to date, Americans may experience the 2012 presidential election through precisely targeted phone calls, visits, tweets and Facebook posts — messages not from the candidates themselves, ... Read More
Meet the ex-Democrat Developer Now Seeking to Sell Tools to the GOP
BY Nick Judd | Wednesday, May 18 2011
Steven Adler had to wait five years before he could get back into the political software industry. He did things like this in the meantime. Say you're the co-founder of a company that quickly becomes part of the core ... Read More
NationBuilder Says, 'The Voter File Was Meant to be Free'
BY Nick Judd | Tuesday, May 17 2011
NationBuilder and a nonpartisan data firm, Political FORCE, announced a partnership yesterday that promises nationwide voter file access to any of their client campaigns that wants it, with far fewer barriers to entry ... Read More
Political Software Giants Battle Over Data Use, Branding
BY Nancy Scola | Monday, March 29 2010
The messy back-and-forth between two well-known DC-based political software firms, NGP and Aristotle, has reached at least one point of resolution. According to a press release being mailed around by the latter firm, the ... Read More
Reverse Engineering Scott Brown's Win: Breakthrough Field Apps and Age Old Political Arts
BY Nancy Scola | Thursday, January 21 2010
What if, has gone the thought of every Democratic field staffer who has suffered through the inefficiencies of shuffling through paper-based "walk lists" as they shuffle through the streets, knocking on doors, ... Read More
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