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Thursday, 12 April 2018
WI, CD 1 - <WI, CD 1 – Rep. Paul Ryan’s seat: Republicans interested include: St. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, Bryan Steil, St. Sen. David Craig, St. Rep. Tyler August. The Dems are well-funded with Ironworker Randy Bryce having raised 4.75 million. Also running, Dem. School Board member Cathy Myers. Trump carried this district by 10 points in 2016.
Wednesday, 11 April 2018
Florida 2018 elections: Florida 2018 elections: Gov. Rick Scott (R) challenging Sen. Bill Nelson (D). This should be one of the most expensive races in Florida history. Add Rep. Dennis Ross (R,FL) to the list of House members not running for re-election.
Tuesday, 06 March 2018
Sen. Thad Cochran (R, MS) - Chairman of the Appropriate Committee, will resign from the Senate on April 1, 2018, over health issues. Gov. Phil Bryant (R,MS) will select Cochran’s replacement. Some have urged Bryant to appoint himself.
Monday, 05 March 2018
Special Election – PA, District 18. Trump carried the district by 20%. Democrat Conor Lamb, Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, Pro-Tariff. Republican Rick Saccone, State Rep, Conservative. The Democratic raised $3.3 million to $700,00 for the Republican. U.S. Steel is headquartered in Pittsburgh. Republican polling 3-5% ahead of the Democrat. Note: District 18 will disappear, following the PA Supreme Court ruling on gerrymandering. The Special Election winner will have to run against an Incumbent in another district. (Politico, Mullings)>
Monday, 05 February 2018
A race to watch - NV 4th District - A race to watch - NV 4th District – Freshman Rep. Ruben Kihuenis (NV,D) not running for re-election following sexual harassment charges. Two former lawmakers are vying for the seat. Former Dem. Rep Steven Horsford, who represented the district beginning in 2013 and former GOP Rep. Cresent Hardy who unseated Horsford in 2014 is also running.
Friday, 02 February 2018
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ, R) - will not seek reelection. This will be a competitive seat.
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R, SC) – not running for reelection. He is Chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
Saturday, 20 January 2018
Some basic facts: There are 435 House Districts: 239 Republicans, 193 Democrats, 3 vacancies. Dems need to gain 25 to get toe 218. To date: 31 of the 239 Republicans already announced they will not be seeking re-election. 15 Democrats are not running for re-election. More to follow. (Mullens Report)

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4 Election-Winning Postcard Campaigns You Can Copy
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Campaign season is ramping up, and that means it’s high time I explored some of the political successes PostcardMania has experienced. There are a lot of political marketing strategies out there that can help you win, but this article will focus on using direct mail to get your message out. Read More...
4 Cutting-Edge Ways To Conduct Political Polls And Surveys
By Tony K, CallHub.io

If the 2016 presidential election polling taught us all anything, it was the need for precise polling and survey methods. Poll after poll concluded that Donald J. Trump had no pathway to victory...
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How to Brand your Campaign on Day 1
By This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Macias PR

If you’re running for office in a larger media market, it will be much more difficult to get your name in the news. The competition for news stories is competitive and if you don’t have a strong editorial angle

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How to Beat the Pro-Trump Candidate
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You can always spot the pro-Trump candidate from a precinct away. He or she is typically the politician who wants to throw fireballs at the local rally held at the gas station. These

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How to Choose Design Colors for a Political Lawn Sign
by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Political Lawn Signs

Henry Ford said you can have any color Model T as long as it is black. Awhile back a survey by the University of Florida claimed that a yellow background with black lettering was the best color combination for a sign

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Tips for Hiring an Effective Political Campaign Telemarketing Company
by Doug Kaplan, Gravis Marketing

Tip #1 – Create a Marketing Plan of Potential Targets

There are several different types of telemarketing agencies across the globe. From direct sales associates that use robocalls or overseas agents,

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Why The Best Data In The World Won’t Win You An Election
By Justin Gargiulo, Founder of VoterTrove
To extract the most value, campaigns will have to move beyond the idea of data as a solution.
Nowadays we talk about data as a solution to the problem of winning elections. It isn’t. Data is an object, not a technology, and objects by themselves do not solve complex problems. Technology does.

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Why Direct Mail About Politics Still Influences
By Elena Neely

Let’s say you’re a candidate for elective office, whether local, state or federal, during this political cycle. Suppose, further, that in your quest for public service, you plan to target the much-coveted demographic of 18-to-34-year-olds known as Millennials. (added 9/13/2016)

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Winning Political Elections with Postcards
3 Simple Steps to Success and a New Job (or another stint in your current one!)
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You call it “campaigning.” I call it “marketing.” Either way, we’re talking about the same thing: getting the word out and generating real-life results. In your case, those results are votes, and you don’t have the luxury of a long-term

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Myth Information: Why Newspapers are more important than ever
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If you think in this age of “new media” that newspapers are not important to winning elections … think again. Today, no medium hashas a higher correlation with voters than newspapers. In fact, newspapers provide much of the “news” content on the internet
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The key to victory: Dogs
By Joe Curran www.filpac.com

Think we're kidding? A couple of years ago we decided to predict the election results by surveying the dogs that we noticed sniffing under the tables at our customers' campaign headquarters. (Well, OK. We soon discovered the dogs couldn't
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Moving Your Political Communications into the Digital Era
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In the political world where we grew up, candidates reached their voters through door-knocking, robo-calls, TV advertisements and direct mail pieces. But the world where these methods alone are effective has gone the way of ...
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