Ed Kilgore gives us five reasons we’re better off without the filibuster.
No doubt you heard about how the Obama campaign ran circles around Romney in the digital sphere last year. There was another less-sexy, sub-category of the digital advantage, which was that the Obama campaign used data-crunching to get a lot more ads per dollar than the Romney campaign. This was all really cool if you were an Obama supporter. But it was also part of the way Big Data in transforming political advertising and advertising in general. Put another way, how Big Data and new technologies migrate from Silicon Valley to high stakes political campaigns and then out into the broader political messaging world.
Ed Kilgore: 5 reasons we’re better off without the filibuster.
A new report from Dylan Scott on the behind-the-scenes steps the White House is taking to keep HealthCare.gov from getting slammed next week.
TPM Reader JM on remembering the broadcasts …
You speak of the CBS News real-time replay of the events. You are nearly 45. I am just past 60
I’m almost 45. So I’ve been watching Kennedy Assassination commemorations my whole life. 50th is a big anniversary – certainly the last big symbolic number when any of the players in the drama will still be alive. But this one was entirely different and unique for me in a way I did not at all expect and in a way that was not entirely tied to the significance of the 50th anniversary milestone itself.
ICYMI: Can Sarah Silverman be as vulgar and (sometimes) gross as male comedians? Read Shannon Kelley’s emphatic “yes”.