November 2013 Local Election AV Returns

As the 2013 November Elections come to a close, there are just a few more days left to get out a mailer, prep for final precinct walks, complete Get Out the Vote efforts and launch last-minute phone banks. As the following tables shows, the absentee turnout to date...

San Diego Mayor – Polling v. Likely Voter Universes

This weekend Survey USA released a new poll on the San Diego Mayor’s race. This new poll showed some changes, but not an overall shifting of the top three candidates. However, rather than focus on the findings, we at PDI have been looking at the demographics of...

Scoring the Absentee Returns

As voting by mail becomes a more common way casting ballots, particularly in low-turnout elections, it becomes imperative to better understand these voters. A generation ago, voting by mail was uncommon.  In fact, the term “Absentee Voting” meant exactly that – a...

LA’s November Elections

This November thousands of voters are going to the polls.  Within Los Angeles County alone there are nearly 100 elections ranging from city council to library board.  With a fresh update from LA County, PDI has 116,000 new registrants since the 2012 General.  A New...

San Diego Mayor Likely Voter Universes

counts & description Political Data has consistently created likely voter universes for statewide and local contests and post-election analysis has pointed to their effectiveness at helping campaigns and pollsters identify those voters that will turn out on...

Past San Diego Election Turnout

On Friday we looked just at the 2005 San Diego Primary and Runoff Elections, with the runoff being a bit more complicated because it was being held concurrent with a statewide special election. Today we look a bit more closely at the 2005 Mayoral and how it fits in...