Obama campaign sparks new political tech startups

The Obama start-ups
economist.com

Innovation and electioneering

Techniques from the president’s election campaigns have spawned one lot of young firms

AT THE inau­gu­ra­tion ball held for staff of Barack Obama’s cam­paign team in Jan­u­ary 2009, the new pres­i­dent “told us al…

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Visualizing who spends what on political campaigns

A Visualization Of The Most Invisible, And Influential, Part Of Political Campaigns
By Emily Elert, popsci.com

An animation by Northeastern University’s LazerLab shows what’s being donated, and where.

When I hear the phrase “polit­i­cal action,” I think of pub­lic demon­stra­tions. But the most influ­en­tial form of polit­i­cal action has noth­ing to do…

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