Also speaking were the senior strategists behind the online campaigns from the three main parties: Hanson, Conservative's Craig Elder, online communities editor at the Conservative Party, and Lib Dem's Mark Pack Head of Digital at Mandate...
Oh, and The Independent (and The Independent on Sunday) advocated tactical voting to maximize the chance of a Liberal Democrat - Labour coalition, in order to make electoral reform a possibility. And Liberal Democrats got 6,827,938 votes, 1.0...
And so it was for Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg after the first TV leaders debate. Catapulted into the lead in the opinion polls, he then faced an intensive round of negative, personal, and often misleading stories from newspaper titles owned...
A boost was also given to the Liberal Democrat party, with £120,000 of donations arriving in the 24 hours after the debate and many people signing up on social networks: The first one, held last week, has blown open the campaign with not only a...
Alastair Stewart of ITN hosted Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the Labour Party, Conservative Party leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg as they discussed domestic affairs before a Manchester TV studio audience.
In part because of this lesson, the Liberal Democrat approach to online campaigning has to be to use caricature and humor upfront -- which then makes it harder for others, as caricaturing a caricature rapidly becomes a bit self-referential...
The speakers were: Rishi Saha, Head of New Media, Conservative Party; Mark Hanson, New Media Strategist, Labour Party; and Mark Pack, Associate Director, Digital, Mandate Communications & Co-Editor, Liberal Democrat Voice.
How do the approaches taken by Labour, the Conservatives, and the Liberal Democrats differ from what we've seen elsewhere? Ironically, it appears that the Republican Brown learned these lessons, but the Democrat Coakley didn't.
