If you’ve got $5,000 in the bank and a determination to crush the two-party system that has dominated the White House for most of the past 220 years, you too could become president Never mind that a third-party candidate has not only never won the modern presidency, but, with the exception of Texas billionaire Ross Perot’s renegade 1992 run ...

I collected football cards as a kid I spent hours memorizing the statistics and even what the players looked like without their helmets on, just in case I ever ran into one of them at a local restaurant or at the airport, which was the only place I ever heard of anyone actually interacting with a famous person in ...

Scott Goodstein, CEO, Catalyst Campaigns has seen the use of social media in political campaigns change from being a positive one-to-one engagement tool to becoming a tool to suppress voting and spread false information Scott shines a light on the current challenges to Section 230 of Communications Decency Act of 1996 and the state of the social media landscape ...

Twitter may be looking to burnish its battered image by starting to flag President Trump’s tweets when they are clearly at variance with the truth, but we shouldn’t forget: This is a platform that has shown little social responsibility in the past, and we’d be fools for thinking it’s going to start now Twitter has always been about what ...

I grew up in retail, the son of a haberdasher, so it’s easy for me to look at the presidential campaign as a basic sales challenge Or to quote my old man, “Don’t blame the customer for not buying a product if they were never talked to” So why, in today’s politics, are Democrats not marketing our candidate to ...

Scott Goodstein is probably best known for his work with unique political campaigns that blend art, music, and culture Having co-founded Punkvotercom, Rock Against Bush, Artists For Obama, Artists For Bernie, DailyAction, CreativeMajority, and LadyPartsJusice, he has built impactful programs that have changed the world in which we live Goodstein also founded Revolution Messaging, which would grow to become America’s ...

Even before the coronavirus made social distancing hip, political door-to-door field efforts were already less effective than previous election cycles People no longer interact with their neighbors as previous generations had, now being more comfortable with online banking, shopping, text messaging and social media platforms Reaching people at home previously cost millions of dollars, it can now be done online ...

In case you haven’t heard, there will be a US presidential election in 2020, and the ramifications are expected to be far-reaching Aside from the surfeit of political, economic and social questions coming to a head in November, an area the election may be having the most effect on now is the cost of advertising Live industry veteran Joe Killian, ...

Several of the Democratic presidential candidates have invoked party unity in the wake of the New Hampshire primary, but the party is a long way from being united Internal squabbling is already running rampant and risks deterring or even disgusting general election voters over the next few months How can the candidates fight what promises to be a fluid ...

What has Facebook done to solve the problem of fake news, of foreign interference in elections, or data privacy — all the issues, in other words, that have plagued the company and tarnished its reputation since the 2016 presidential election? To judge by its new policy on political advertising, the answer is: Next to nothing On ...