#RaiseTheTech: Has social media changed elections?
Social media can provide an important snapshot, if not the whole picture
Electionline explores how social media and the web is impacting elections.
"Brian Newby, Johnson County, Kansas clerk and author of the Election Diary blog, said, “I’ve gone from thinking Twitter was essentially useless (2008) to vital, particularly as a monitoring tool."
"According to a Pew study, . . .
#RaiseTheVote: The MayOne Super PAC Achieves Its May Fundraising Goal
$1 Million Raised in 12 Day
#RaiseTheTech: FEC Unanimously Approves Bitcoin For Political Contributions
But Its Unclear If Bitcoin Donations Are Capped at $100
Roll Call is reporting that "The commission approved bitcoin campaign contributions 6-0 Thursday in response to an advisory opinion request from the Make Your Laws PAC, which promotes direct citizen participation in the legislative process."
"Make Your Laws had asked the FEC for permission to collect bitcoin . . .
#RaiseTheVote: MAYDAY Citizens' SuperPAC Launches
Larry Lessig's Super PAC to end all Super PACs
Larry Lessig announced the launching of his experiment to see if it is possible to crowdfund a Super PAC to support political candidates that support campaign finance reform.
Excerpted from the site...
"Government has failed us. More than 90% of Americans link that failure to the influence of money in . . .
#RaiseTheVote: Lawrence Lessig Has a “Moonshot” Plan to Halt Our Slide Toward Plutocracy
What is required is an ambitious, collective, national effort “unlike anything they’ve seen before”.
Excerpted from the interview with Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig, an advocate for campaign finance reform...
“If we could put together $700–900 million from the bottom up and then significant contributions from the top down, we could win a Congress in 2016 that would be powerful enough to bring about this kind of fundamental . . .
#RaiseTheVote: The left's secret club plans for 2014, 2016
Some of the country’s biggest Democratic donors... huddling behind closed doors beginning Sunday in Chicago with union bigwigs and progressive superstars... to plan how to pull their party — and the country — to the left.
Kenneth P Vogel writes...
"The DA (Democracy Alliance), as the liberal group is known to insiders, is increasing its ranks of rich donors for the first time in years and is gearing up to spend huge sums on political data, voter registration, ground organizing and advertising to influence the 2014 midterms and 2016 . . .
#RaiseTheVote: Koch World 2014
If the Koch brothers’ political operation seemed ambitious in 2010 or 2012, wait for what’s in store for 2014 and beyond.
Kenneth P Vogel writes...
"The billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch are convening some of the country’s richest Republican donors on Sunday at a resort near Palm Springs, Calif., to raise millions of dollars for efforts to shape the political landscape for years to come."
"The Koch . . .
