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Last Friday marked the annual AAPC Pollies, which recognizes America’s best in political consulting across a wide array of categories. We’re pleased to share that Harris Media won an incredible 10 Pollie Awards!

Originally published March 13, 2013 BusinessInsider.com The Republican National Committee announced Tuesday it is searching for a new chief technology officer to lead a digital makeover that will put data and technology at the center of its operations. It’s part of a broader effort to modernize the party in the wake of its 2012 election [...]

Originally published March 7, 2013 Forbes.com Joe Flacco is a great quarterback who just signed a record-setting contract to make him the highest paid NFL athlete in history. So if you owned the Baltimore Ravens would you name him General Manager and place him in charge of the team’s multi-billion dollar business through the next [...]

Business Insider has listed CEO Vincent Harris among an all-star list of the top “50 Hottest People in Digital Politics” Of him they said: Harris was the digital mastermind behind Texas Republican Ted Cruz’s Tea Party-driven 2012 Senate campaign, which harnessed social media and online fundraising tools to build up a grassroots network of support [...]

Originally published February 18, 2013 RollCall.com It’s usually easier to bring in big bucks when your party holds the speaker’s gavel. But last cycle, House Democrats crushed their competitors thanks to a dramatic spike in online fundraising. In the 2010 cycle, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised $14.6 million online; in 2012 it took in [...]

Originally published February 16, 2013 Politico.com A congressman gets an earful from his neighbor after church about a tax bill. A senator suddenly finds old high school classmates calling her about an upcoming vote on a small business bill. Those meetings may not be coincidences. The same social data-mining ability and concept — that voters [...]

Originally published February 14, 2013 NYTimes.com One afternoon last month, I paid a visit to two young Republicans named Bret Jacobson and Ian Spencer, who work in a small office in Arlington, Va., situated above an antique store and adjacent to a Japanese auto shop. Their five-man company, Red Edge, is a digital-advocacy group for [...]

Originally published February 1, 2013 WashingtonPost.com The writing-off of Sarah Palin began not long after her departure from Fox News hit the newswaves last Friday. The Post’s Chris Cillizza wrote on Monday that Palin is now “officially gone,” at least from the national spotlight. And MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell bid the failed 2008 vice presidential candidate a self-satisfied [...]

Originally published February 1, 2013 MSNBC.com Is Hillary Clinton  the game-changing Democrat who can finally realize the liberal dream of turning Texas blue? A new survey by the left-leaning Public Policy Polling indicates that the answer is yes. The retiring secretary of state could make the Lone Star State competitive in 2016, should she decide to [...]

Originally published January 31, 2013 Politico.com While all eyes were on digital strategy last year during a presidential campaign in which both sides spent millions online trying to persuade voters, 2013 offers an equally compelling opportunity for both parties to try out new digital strategies and utilize old ones. Big gubernatorial races in Virginia and [...]