Tag: GOP

The Republican effort to allow its rank and file members to craft the party's platform has officially launched in the form of America Speaking Out, built on top of Microsoft's Town Hall platform. Users can sign up directly with America Speaking Out or use Facebook Connect to log on. Once a member, you're only a few mouse clicks away from wielding influence over what issues and policies will form ...

The 2004 and 2008 elections made it abundantly clear that Republicans had a long way to go if they intended to catch up to the Democrats when it comes to politicking 2.0. Obama was thrust into office based largely on his success in leveraging the Web to rally the youth vote and has carried that tech savvy into the White House. In the meantime the GOP has struggled to even pull off simple tasks, ...

The story about the GOP-branded URL shortening service that we brought you earlier was really just one of several major Internet flubs pulled off by the Republican party this year. The party of John McCain and George Bush is playing catchup with the Democrats when it comes to leveraging the Web to recruit and organize members, and is clearly learning as it goes. From the misuse of its most ...

You'd think the world had enough URL shortening services at this point -- TinyURL, Bit.ly, is.gd, twurl, tr.im, Digg, Facebook, Google, the New York Times -- it seems like everyone is getting down on downsizing. The GOP, seeing the latest trend sweeping across the series of tubes, decided now was the time to hop on the bandwagon and launch its own link shrinking service. GOP.AM sports an ...