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More Than Gimmicks: How Obama's Tech Tools Are Shifting the Debate
Critics deride the White House's fondness for platforms like Google Plus and web petitions, but they're proving effective at surfacing issues the media would otherwise ignore.
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Ron Paul vs. RonPaul.com: How Coalitions Crack Up in the Internet Age
The retired representative is at odds with fans over a site bearing his name. As permanent political campaigns come to the web, expect more fights like this.
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How Organizing for Action Plans to Keep Obama's Foot Soldiers Enlisted
With the election over, Democrats hope to keep the campaign infrastructure churning -- but a volunteer conference this weekend shows they have their work cut out for them.
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What We've Really Lost to the Fiscal Cliff: A Sense of Form
Congress is like a college student who packs to go back to school at the last minute using a plastic garbage bag as luggage -- and that's bad for everyone.
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Data vs. Gurus: Democrats Say Metrics Are Eclipsing the Consultant Class
In a new, numbers-based world, progressive conferees at RootsCamp see lucrative work for wise men drying up. How fast will conservatives catch up?
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The Social-Network Effect That Is Helping Legalize Gay Marriage
How peer-to-peer networking tool Amicus helped activists in Minnesota and Washington win same-sex-marriage campaigns
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Why It's Going to Be Hard for Republicans to Match the Big-Data Advantage Democrats Have Built
Democrats' history of community organizing has made their current data-driven approach a seamless advance.
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Hurricane Sandy Is a Reminder of Why 'Obama Phones' Exist
The country has a strong safety interest in subsidizing communications for low-income people.
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What the Big 1960s Debate in Anthropology Can Tell Us About Mitt Romney
The idea of transactionalism helps explain why the candidate is having trouble selling his world view.
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The (Literal) Ugliness of the 2012 Campaign
In 2008, the Obama team dazzled with design. This year, not so much.
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How a 14-Minute Video Can Trigger Violence Abroad
A perceived cozy relationship between the U.S. government and Internet companies doesn't help.
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What It's Like to Be Filmmaker to the President
In his new book, former Obama staffer Arun Chaudhary dishes about his experiences as the first official White House videographer.
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All the President's Mystery Men (and Women)
While campaigns trumpet their VP picks, voters get little insight into who might staff a president-to-be's cabinet -- and help set administration policy. Should that change?
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In Bloomberg's Healthy NYC, Still Afraid to Take (on) Sick Days
Why is regulating soda size okay -- but mandating sick days taboo? It's more complicated than you think.
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Congressman Darrell Issa's Call to the Internet's Right Side
The House member makes the case that a conservative approach is the best hope for keeping the Internet full of win.
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Defining the 'We' in the Declaration of Internet Freedom
Left unsaid in a high-profile new document about Internet's principles is whose interests it represents—and how they'll be backed.
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A Tour of the Self-Contained, Design-Happy City of Obamaland
Obama doesn't just denounce outsourcing on the stump. His campaign HQ is a living test of the theory that everything can be done best in-house.
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Rashomon on the Hill: Why Every House Committee Has Two Websites
Online policies adopted in the 20th century give the public only partisan takes on what their representatives are up to.
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The Fraught Mobile Politics of the United States of Amercia [Sic]
Will voters care about a sloppy spelling? Of course not. But the incident shows the dangers of politics in Apple's environment, where the company has total control.
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With 'Dashboard,' Obama Campaign Aims to Bridge Online and Off
The tool has more horsepower under the hood than might be obvious, but it still depends on volunteers willing to spend lots of their own time.