Twelve years ago, I did the same thing the AP did tonight. Here's why.
Back in 2004, bloggers like me caught a lot of flak from establishment journalists when we released early versions of exit polls--both in primaries and general elections--before the polls closed.The...
View ArticleBuilding Organizational Power Through Your Email List: A Netroots Nation...
This is a rough transcript of a presentation I am about to give at Netroots Nation. I am posting it in the diaries so that people in the audience can follow along more easily, and so that those of you...
View ArticleIf history is a guide, a progressive Democratic Party may be closer than you...
By Chris Bowers and Matt KerbelThis is the last of five diaries looking at the 2016 election from the perspective of our new book Next Generation Netroots: Realignment and the Rise of the Internet...
View ArticleSix years ago this week, something amazing started here at Daily Kos
Hello, my name is Chris Bowers. I am the Executive Campaign Director here at Daily Kos. With your help, I did an amazing thing at my job, and I would like to briefly tell you about it.Six years ago...
View ArticleThis is awesome: Women voting at higher rates than men relative to 2012 in...
Here is a remarkable piece of good news from early voting expert Michael McDonald: xStates with greater increase of women voting early than men from 2012:AZ, FL, GA, LA, NC (i.e., every one where there...
View ArticleI once said all the polls and poll analysts were wrong. It ended badly for me.
My fellow Kossacks, I know that a lot of you are irritated at Nate Silver right now. However, please, take it from me: don't fool yourself that the polls or the poll analysts are all off.In 2004, via...
View ArticleBefore you make any criticism of Hillary Clinton's campaign, remember this...
Before you make any criticism of Hillary Clinton, her campaign, or Democrats, I am just going to ask you to remember this one thing.Hillary Clinton got more votes than Donald Trump.You thought she...
View ArticleThe surprisingly realistic path to electing the president by national popular...
Campaign ActionOn Nov. 8, the American people spoke clearly, and chose Hillary Clinton for President.As of this writing, Clinton leads the popular vote by over 2,600,000 votes, However, because her...
View ArticleSurprise! Voter turnout in 2016 likely higher than 2012
By now, you have probably heard people claim that Hillary Clinton mainly lost due to low turnout. It's been kind of hard to miss that line of thinking, since graphs such as this are getting shared...
View ArticleThese two tweets show why so much of what you have read about the election is BS
Remember hearing about how Hillary Clinton lost because of low turnout? How people were not excited to come out and vote for her? About how she was millions of votes below where Obama's total?Well,...
View ArticleThe surprisingly obvious reason why petitions are essential to digital activism
As Executive Campaign Director here at Daily Kos, one of the most frequent criticisms I hear of our work is some variation on why petitions are useless:Petitions are pointless. They don't accomplish...
View ArticleIn a democratic country, she would be president: Hillary Clinton's lead...
Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report and Fivethiryeight reports that Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote has reached 2.0%: xSacramento, CA: 18k new Clinton votes, 8k Trump. Clinton's...
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