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 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 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
Oct 26 Battleground Blitz Continues, New Ads Hit Airwaves By Christina Bellantoni Mitt Romney holds a campaign rally Thursday at Defiance High School in Ohio. Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images. With 11 days to go until Election Day, there is no rest for the weary. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney campaigns across… Continue reading
Oct 26 Gwen’s Take: Election Countdown: By the Numbers By Gwen Ifill I've got to admit I could not contain my excitement when an aide to a Massachusetts Senate candidate shared with me her campaign survival secret: an app that counts down to Election Day. Regardless of whether it's 25, 14, 12… Continue reading
Oct 25 Watch Why Hasn’t the Euro Debt Crisis Been a More Prominent Campaign Topic? Why Hasn't the Euro Debt Crisis Been a More Prominent Campaign Topic?… Continue watching
Oct 25 Watch Battleground Strategy: Candidates Use Huge Funds to Target Ads to Undecideds Battleground Strategy: Candidates Use Huge Funds to Target Ads to Undecideds… Continue watching
Oct 25 Obama, Romney Target Buckeye State By Terence Burlij Opposing campaign signs are displayed on Clinton Street in Defiance, Ohio. Photo by Joel Prince for The Washington Post via Getty Images. Twelve days until Election Day and, to almost no one's surprise, the presidential election appears to be coming… Continue reading
Oct 24 Watch Alternative Presidential Candidates Face Off in Third Party Debate in Chicago Alternative Presidential Candidates Face Off in Third Party Debate in Chicago… Continue watching
Oct 24 Young Voices: University Students React to Foreign Policy Debate NewsHour politics production assistant Allie Morris (wearing the HatCam) talks to George Washington University sophomore Alli Schlossberg after the third presidential debate Monday night.(Photo by Jessica Fink/NewsHour) From inside George Washington University's Jack Morton Auditorium, it was clear which of… Continue reading