by Paul | Oct 31, 2014 | News
PDI has just completed the process of obtaining and posting the 15-day close for each county, and in it we find some surprising datapoints. The late surge of voter registration in past election years was documented in a prior blog posting. As that writeup discussed,...
by Paul | Oct 29, 2014 | News
New Registrations play an important part of every election cycle. Campaigns can be won or lost based on months-long efforts to build a larger voting base, and aggressive GOTV pushes to get these new voters to turn out and vote. Those voters who are newly registered...
by Paul | Oct 28, 2014 | News
With a week to go before the November General Election, data collected on absentee ballot returns is finally giving us a story that confirms the conventional political wisdom: turnout will be low. Our Absentee Ballot Tracking Worksheet, with more than 12,000 views...
by Paul | Oct 20, 2014 | News
Today is the last day to register to vote in advance of the November 4th General Election. It is also the day, historically, with the highest day of new registrations as community groups, county registrars and the Secretary of State usually make a final last...
by Paul | Oct 13, 2014 | News
The reputation of Political Data Inc was built on the only statewide file generated by all 58 counties with regular updates to maintain the freshest voter records in the business. As we get to the close of the 2014 election season we can see this in action with...
by Paul | Aug 21, 2014 | News
Candidates and consultants are always looking for the next big thing in campaigns, and in 2014 it seems that new thing is here: Modeling. Modeling has been around for decades. The underpinnings of it are in statistical analysis that can pair voter datapoints to...
