Oct 29 Digital Campaigns May Decide the Election By Hari Sreenivasan I'm a registered independent who lives in a battleground state, but I'm also what's known as an off-the-grid voter, meaning I've lived with a DVR for a decade and fast forward right through those campaign ads. I haven't had a… Continue reading
Oct 29 Watch Political Checklist: Frontline Looks at Digital Campaigns Political Checklist: Frontline Looks at Digital Campaigns… Continue watching
Oct 29 Bill Ivey, Former NEA Chairman, Author of 'Handmaking America' By Tom LeGro More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with Bill Ivey, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and author of "Handmaking America: A Back-to-Basics Pathway to a Revitalized American Democracy."… Continue reading
Oct 29 'Frankenstorm' Sandy Becomes Campaigns' October Surprise By Christina Bellantoni President Obama listens to a briefing on Hurricane Sandy at FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. Photo by Dennis Brack/Pool via Getty Images. All politics is local. Especially when swing states are in the path of Hurricane Sandy. Continue reading
Oct 29 Watch News Wrap: Supreme Court Hears Arguments Challenging Surveillance Law In other news Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments challenging parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The case was brought to the court over an expansion of the law that some are concerned gives government too much power… Continue watching
Oct 29 Watch How Campaigns Amass Your Personal Information to Deliver Tailored Political Ads Political advertisers now have unprecedented access to online browsing data, and the presidential campaigns are using gathered information to slice and dice the electorate and engage with voters on issues that are most relevant to their lives. Hari Sreenivasan reports… Continue watching
Oct 26 Watch Shields and Brooks on Sununu and the Giants Shields and Brooks on Sununu and the Giants… Continue watching
Oct 26 Battleground Dispatches: Ohio's Political Ad Wars Both presidential campaigns have their sights set on the Buckeye State. Their strategies for winning Ohio's 18 electoral votes both involve the place where voters set their sights -- television screens. "[T]here is a tremendous amount of media saturation," said… Continue reading
Oct 26 Shields and Brooks on Sununu and the Giants By Hari Sreenivasan No, it's not the name of a hipster band from Brooklyn, it's what we talked about on the Doubleheader with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks. In our sport of politics section we addressed the… Continue reading
Oct 26 Watch Shields and Brooks on the Importance of Ohio, Microtargeting Voters Shields and Brooks on Debates, Microtargeting Voters and Romney's Foreign Policy… Continue watching