Possibilities. My own office at the state department has had a pretty consistent budget thanks to the congress to support Civil Society actors in a variety of countries and, of course, the National Endowment for democracy remains the pree moore institution in the world premier institution in the world for targeting assistance to democrats usually many tough places. So they know they have support from the outside community, from the International Community. So let me mention a couple of things just to wind up this opening scene setter. One is that i think we in the United States need to appreciate the Important Role that congress plays. While we disparage its occasional polarization and inability to resolve certain major things, the congress has been a major contributor to american democracy programming in a lot of ways. Not least in the creation of my part of the state department. You know, the bureau for democracy, human rights and labor was created 30 years ago over the objections of
Trevelyan whose group ask called ngp van, he works with democrats, also joining us is chuck defeo of the Republican National committee where he serves as chief digital officer and shane daprile. Lets begin with you, mr. Terrell january, if we could. Trevelyan, if we could. What exactly are the components of a Digital Campaign . What type of tools are used . Guest well, so i think its actually evolving. I think historically the Digital Tools were largely thought of as the email tools and the online contributions, the web site, but i think its evolved. Our company, for example, also offers tools that enable sort of the shoe leather side of the campaign, so the canvassing, the phone calling, the direct mail. And then i think youre seeing many more marketing channels come online where now theres person addressable tv ads, online ads, you can actually do person addressable interactions through social networks, so i think now theres a pretty wide swath of things which you could call digital.
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