Sentences with phrase «polled targeted voters»

After completing the focus groups, the campaign polled targeted voters to gauge their knowledge of and interest in the gubernatorial election.

Not exact matches

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign said on Friday it had been the target of a «massive» computer hack that dumped its campaign mails online 1-1/2 days before voters go to the polls to choose between the centrist and his far - right rival Marine Le Pen.

The poll of 1,011 likely voters was conducted April 10 - 13, although the poll methodology does not indicate if any of the responses were collected after the president announced airstrikes against Syrian targets in retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack.

Brock focused on using information technology to build first - rate fundraising, voter - targeting, and opinion polling operations.

Chris Cillizza and Jim VandeHei have a great article in today's Post, «In Ohio, a Battle of Databases,» that looks in detail at how campaigns work with data behind the scenes to find voters, hit them with targeted messages and ultimately get them to the polls.

Forward NY is specifically targeting Latino voters, which polls show is the largest group of undecided voters in the comptroller's race.

The Associated Press unveiled a new project to supplant traditional exit polling — beginning with the 2018 midterm elections — by combining traditional, probability - based polling with an online, opt - in survey of voters in targeted states.

The same will be true in the struggle for control of Congress next year, as state parties, individual campaigns and outside groups spend tens of millions of dollars targeting their voters and working to get them to the polls.

Learning from Obama's success in voter - targeting, campaigns on both will try to use data to contact the voters whose appearance at the polls could put them over the top.

But it could help Senate candidates in battleground states target both base and independent voters, who polling shows overwhelmingly favor expanded background checks.

Sen. John McCain, R - Ariz., 5th term McCain is entering his third decade in the Senate, but with a presidential race at the top of the ticket, Arizona will likely be targeted by national Democrats this year who would offer organizational support to drive voters to the polls.

Campaigns already maintain reams of data on voters in effort to identify and target supporters in order to get them to come to the polls.

Everyone's been in Kentucky Boneless Chicken mode since I soft - polled a bunch of target voters on recognition issues and just over 70 % of them thought Ed Balls was EWAN MCGREGOR»S DAD.

Taking their lead from some of the best US campaigns, parties have been making extensive use of polling, local intelligence from voters, and additional useful information like consumer data, to produce microtargeted campaigns to raise turnout amongst specific groups in target seats.

The study claimed that 80 % of the accounts were created in the weeks before polling day, and were used to target voters with key political messages during vital points in the campaign, including the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing.

Admittedly there are commuters currently wending their way home who will be voting, but based on progress from the morning into early evening, the number of London Labour voters that the GOTV operation will be able to deliver to the polls is running substantially below target.»

An overwhelming majority of New York voters say they are concerned the state will be the target of a terror attack in the near future, a Siena College poll released yesterday showed.

The Conservatives are using an updated form of Labour's Excalibur machine which they used to get to power in 1997 — this one called Merlin — but now combining the targeting of Excalibur with extensive polling of groups as large as 10,000 enabling the party to rapidly produce pieces of literature to snare wavering groups of voters.

• The Republican committee paid out $ 22 million in September alone to pay for ground - game activities in battleground states, including staffing, phone calls, polling, targeting, voter registration efforts, and other data efforts.

Respondents of this poll were matched to a target sample of Massachusetts registered voters based on gender, age, race, education, party identification, ideology, and political interest.

However, another recent poll found that when prompted to consider the possibility of increased taxes to fund more early care programs, voters favored targeted preschool over universal programs.