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Even Martin Luther King repeated the same message

31 August 2009 , ,
Plugging away with the same message time after time may sound the obvious way to get your message over, but think how often discussions about what should go in a leaflet revolve around coming up with new things to say – or how when you look through the collection of leaflets from a campaign some [...]

“Soc-Nets and Web Strategies Can’t Replace Door-to-Door”

28 August 2009 , , ,
An interesting piece from the American Campaigns & Elections site which acts as a salutary reminder that, for all the impressiveness of Obama and his use of the internet, there’s rather more to campaigning: Two recently released surveys on how Americans perceive brands and make decisions gives us geeky political junkies an idea of how different campaign [...]

Lessons from the Republican internet catch-up efforts

22 August 2009 , , ,
The way the Repubicans are trying to get to grips with improving their internet presence following last year’s Presidental election defeat suggest some interesting pointers for the UK. As I’ve often written in the past, US politics is very different from British politics – and so one should be cautious at reading across lessons from [...]

How good was Obama’s campaign?

16 June 2009 , ,
Cross-posted from The Wardman Wire: I’ve blogged before about some of the myths around Obama’s campaign – the exaggerated tales of seas of small donors and soaring turnout. Now it’s time to look at how the votes played out across the country and see what it tells us. The US Presidential election is (with some minor exceptions) [...]
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