Just like FDR used radio to reach out to and broaden his audience, the progressive movement has an array of new technologies at its disposal that is allowing it to reach emerging audiences. With the game-changing potential of Hispanics, Millennials, Influentials, and Exurbs, progressives have both an opportunity and responsibility to engage the audiences of 21st century America. To learn more, please come join us on Friday, May 9, when NDN and the New Politics Institute will conduct New Tools and New Audiences, a day-long forum with experts from many fields about how the new tools -- ranging from cell phones to buying cable advertising -- can reach these critical audiences now and how those audiences in turn, can use them to reach others.r
Our national tools campaign focuses on eight new tools that are ready for prime-time and will make a huge difference in our current political cycle. Get an overview of all eight tools, or drill down on each individual tool below.
The 2008 elections are not just about the next four years, but potentially about the next several decades, argue Rosenberg and Leyden, who urge progressives not to simply think about a 50-state strategy, but a 50-year one. The collapse of the conservatives has provided an unusual political opening, they observe, while major shifts in technology and media, demographics, and the challenges the country faces have combined to give progressives an even rarer opportunity to restructure politics for the long term.
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To reflect on - and perhaps make sense - of the extraordinary 2008 Presidential cycle, NDN and NPI hosted an event featuring Joe Trippi, just back as chief strategist with John Edward’s Presidential campaign, Amy Walter, editor-in-chief of the Hotline, NDN President and Founder Simon Rosenberg, Andres Ramirez, Vice President of NDN's Hispanic Programs, and Peter Leyden, Director of the New Politics Institute.
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