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Monday, 16 October 2017 v2
Election to watch - VA Governor. Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) – is term limited. As an open seat in a purple state, this is an important race Running are: Ed Gillespie (R), former VA Republican Chairman; he has raised $10 million; Ralph Norman (D), former State Senator, has raised $16 million; also running is Cliff Hyra, Libertarian. The race has tightened in the past few weeks with the Democrat, however, still showing a 5 point advantage in the latest poll. Since 1977, the incumbent president party has lost the VA Gubernatorial race the next year. (The Hill). This race will be interesting to watch.
Monday, 16 October 2017
California Senatorial Election - California Senatorial Election – California State Senate President Kevin de Leon (CA,D) will challenge Diane Feinstein in 2018. The Democrat did not mention the 84 year old Feinstein in his announcement.
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
3 Dems from districts that Trump won in 2016 will be retiring: Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D,NH); Rep. Jacky Rosen (D,NV) running for the Senate against Sen. Dean Heller (R,NV); Rep. Tim Walz (D,MN), running for Governor.
Thursday, 28 September 2017
Sen. Bob Corker (R, TN) - the first Senator not to run for reelection in 2018. He is currently the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Monday, 18 September 2017
A RACE TO WATCH: - Republican Senatorial Runoff election- Alabama vacant Senate seat (formerly held by now AG Jeff Sessions). Senator Luther Strange (supported by President Trump) and former justice Roy Moore (supported by Rep. Mo Brooks, who ran against Strange and Moore in the Primary) will face each other next Tuesday.
Thursday, 17 August 2017
AL - Republican Special Senate Runoff – Primary winners: Roy Moore (R), with 41% and Sen. Luther Strange (R), with 32%, will face off on Sept. 26th. In the general election, one of the Repubs will face Doug Jones (D).
Monday, 24 July 2017
2018 US House Seats to watch - Toss Up (3R, 3D): Lean Democratic: AZ 1 (O’Halleran, D); CA 49 (Issa, R); MN 1 (Open, Walz, DFL). Lean Republican: MN 2 (Lewis, R); NJ 5 (Gottheimer, D); TX 23 (Hurd, R). (Inside Elections with Nathan Gonzales).
Wednesday, 19 July 2017
Special Alabama US Senate Primary - 8/15/2017 – replace AG Jeff Sessions. Sen. Luther Strange (R, AL), appointed Senator on Feb. 9 will face Rep. Mo Brooks (R,AL) and ex-Justice Roy Moore (R,AL). The top 2 vote getters will face each other in a 9/26/2017 run-off election.

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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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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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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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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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