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I think we would also be hard pressed to find a political campaign succeed without the use of Twitter, Facebook, AWS and others. To claim that someone can succe

• gamblor956 6y ago
  That dramatically overstates the importance of Twitter, Facebook, AWS, and technology on political campaigns. Technology matters at the national level, any maybe even at the Senate level, but below that it's a nice-to-have and definitely is not an essential. And Georgia demonstrates that technology matters very little even in high-stakes races. One In-person contact and live phone calls (meaning that the person from the campaign is an actual person, not a recorded message) matters more than a thousand tweets, more than a thousand Facebook posts. AWS makes it easier not to use hardware, sure, but many campaign websites are just customized Wordpress. You can run that on any webhost, or even an old laptop in the back of the campaign office.