As nearly two dozen Democratic presidential candidates descend upon Detroit for next week’s debate, the state of Michigan’s electorate -- and what that portends for the 2020 election -- couldn’t be more important. Having voted [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 6, 2019 Contact: Press@TargetSmart.com Tool Launches with 360° View of 2020 Super Tuesday States Washington, DC – Today TargetSmart, a Democratic political data and analytics firm launched Insights.TargetSmart.com, the first-of-its-kind data analysis [...]
Following an electrifying Senate race where Beto O’Rourke’s campaign nearly claimed Ted Cruz’s Senate seat, an energized youth vote may spell trouble for Donald Trump, John Cornyn, and vulnerable House Republicans in 2020. A new [...]
A new TargetSmart analysis reveals a shift toward a younger and more diverse electorate in Arizona, solidifying its status as an emergent swing state ahead of the 2020 election. The analysis finds that more than [...]
In this era of polarized politics, a new polarizing subject seems to have arisen — the analysis (or lack thereof) of the votes cast before Election Day. And the stakes are only getting higher: in 1996 only [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 22, 2018 Contact: Press@TargetSmart.com Washington, D.C. – Today, TargetSmart, a Democratic political analytics firm, launched TargetEarly a first of its kind dashboard of state-by-state early vote data at targetearly.targetsmart.com. Information will [...]
Commercial voter files hold great promise for studying certain aspects of American politics. These files, compiled by private vendors from administrative data collected by state and local governments, aim to get records for every [...]
MEMORANDUM TO: Interested Parties FROM: Tom Bonier, TargetSmart CEO RE: Analysis: Primary Turnout in Majority African-American Districts Up From 2014 DATE: October 9. 2018 A new TargetSmart analysis shows that primary turnout in majority [...]
Young voters are notoriously absent at midterms, but experts say this year could be different, in part because of the political activism surrounding guns. A July analysis from polling firm TargetSmart looked at the change in millennial [...]
In an effort to provide Democratic candidates and progressive organizations with effective, affordable communication tools, TargetSmart, the leading data provider to Democratic campaigns and causes, has partnered with SpeakEasy Political – a self-serve political ad [...]
