I am Alex White, a progressive campaign strategist, writer, social marketer and policy activist.
In 2012, I spent over two and a half months working full-time as an Organizing Fellow with the Obama for America campaign. Based in Boston Massachusetts, the campaign’s focus was winning the next-door battleground state of New Hampshire. Working full-time on the campaign gave me an incredible opportunity to experience first-hand how the famed Obama [...]
An article I wrote for New Matilda has been published. It examines what lessons Labor could learn from the Obama 2012 campaign to win this year’s Federal election. You can read the article here, and I’ve reproduced it below. This month’s Newspoll boosted Labor’s hopes about the next election. The commentators and Twitterati who got [...]
If the broad “left” in Australia bemoaned the horrible year that was 2012, progressives should brace themselves for an ever worse one in 2013. While I hope I am wrong, here’s the top reasons why I hold little hope for 2013. Few bright spots for policy The hung parliament, although angst-ridden for the political commentary [...]
For the past two years, I’ve written a short post on how I’ve gone in blogging and tweeting for the past twelve months (read 2010 and 2011). The past twelve months have seen a continued steady increase in my blog readership, although the middle of the year, as with the past two years seem to [...]
I had the great fortune to work for the Obama for America campaign for two and a half months in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. I believe there are many elements of his campaign that unions could learn from. Of course, the organising model that Obama adopted was based on Marshall Ganz and Saul Alinsky. Nevertheless, [...]