Research

Explore our latest polling, voter surveys, and case studies. Our research provides data-driven insights into voter behavior, media trends, and campaign effectiveness.

No. 28
Category: Survey

Politics Professionalized. Campaigns Can’t: The 2026 Political Careers Survey

Political work became a career. On the campaign side, the employment structure never followed. A survey of 427 political professionals on pay, benefits, retention, and AI, conducted with Republican Jobs.

No. 27
Category: Report

Democrats' Edge In The Partisan Email Divide

How shared sending infrastructure gives Democratic campaigns a structural advantage in inbox placement.

No. 26
Category: Field Test

Testing Text Messaging as a Complement to Door-to-Door Canvassing

When delivered effectively, post-canvass texting produces modest but meaningful gains in turnout, with effects concentrated among women and not driven by improvements in canvassing contact rates.

No. 25
Category: Report

Website Biography Text and Electoral Performance

This report summarizes an exploratory study of campaign website biography pages and their relationship to electoral performance.

No. 24
Category: Field Test

Testing Mail Messaging to Mobilize 2024-Only Voters in New Jersey

Our New Jersey field experiment found that while traditional turnout mail performs about as expected, messaging that reinforces a voter’s recent participation and frames voting as a personal “streak” was directionally more effective at boosting turnout than generic GOTV or election-integrity appeals.