Using data aggressively #nlpoli
These days campaigns are about collecting information on voters and using the data.The Ted Cruz campaign has been especially aggressive in Iowa with a mailer that highlights the poor record…
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Political Calculations 2 #nlpoli
The next provincial general election finishes on November 30, 2015. Not the way you are used to thinking of it, right? You think the election happens on that day because,…
The Ground Game Counts #nlpoli
Two posts, quite a distance apart touch on the same basic political (science) issue: the role of the local, get-out-the-vote effort in any political campaign. In a post at the…
Cost per Vote: the Rural/Urban Divide #nlpoli
In looking at by-elections in Newfoundland and Labrador, the second and third phases offer a neat cluster of by-elections in urban (metro St. John’s) and rural (everywhere else) districts. Break…
Campaign Spending and Efficiency #nlpoli
Two of the three political parties in this province are spending more, on average, and getting less, on average in by-elections. That’s one of the things you can see in…