Short Stories, Long Odds

Democrats have long struggled with communicating their core issues to the base American electorate. New polls and general anecdotal evidence are showing that it has started happening by default. Democrats now control the agenda on issues that are truly important to Americans, and it is due in large part to an unlikely ally - traditional [...]

Eventually, the entire dynamic of American campaigns will change. Because of the intertubes.
All fretting about interest levels in the Texas campaign aside, I think there’s an interesting trend becoming visible in this election cycle. Ad revenue is still very important for a campaign - the donations must come rolling in, especially for statewide campaigns, so [...]