Mark Drapeau wrote this interesting post about new media and political campaigns. His conclusion: Candidates need platforms, personalities, financing, timing, and luck to pull off a successful run. In the end, a campaign is a campaign, and new media tools are just that – tools. They can in principle helpful for executing a campaign against […]
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Gov 2.0 Camp
I’ve added a few pictures from Gov 2.0 Camp to this site’s flickr page here. We were honored to hear from Macon Phillips, White House Director of New Media, and Bev Godwin, White House Director of Online Resources and Interagency Development.
Following the State Money
Edwin Bender of the National Institute on Money in State Politics writes this article on the need to promote standardized campaign finance and lobbyist data reporting in the states. The lack of uniform disclosure for the 50 states is a failure by design. Fragmented campaign-finance reporting means it’s more difficult for people to follow the […]