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Insights2023-03-08T15:25:40+00:00

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Insights is a first-of-its-kind data analysis tool that gives reporters, political practitioners, and the public unfettered access to topline voter data that were previously only available to TargetSmart clients.

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Stay informed

Insights is a first-of-its-kind data analysis tool that gives reporters, political practitioners, and the public unfettered access to topline voter data that were previously only available to TargetSmart clients.

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TargetSmart to Hold 2020 Debrief with Biden Analytics; Leading Pollsters & Party Strategists

December 2, 2020|

WASHINGTON, DC — On Thursday December 3rd at 2:00 PM ET, progressive data firm TargetSmart will host a virtual election debrief. Panel conversations will explore the innovative application of political data by the Biden Campaign and DNC; what leading pollsters learned from their industry’s challenges this cycle and an analysis of what we know so far about the 2020 electorate.  [...]

The Unheralded Voting Bloc of 2020

November 13, 2020|

An Assessment of the AAPI Vote in the 2020 Presidential Election. As the last remaining votes of the 2020 general election are counted and the legal challenges continue, we’ve begun the work of digging through the available data to better understand what happened. This work will continue for the next several weeks, as states report the individual level history of [...]

A First-Look: SC Early Vote #s

November 3, 2020|

TargetSmart Insights Tuesday, November 3, 2020 Throughout the early vote period, most states release regular data on who exactly has voted. When we pair that information with our national voter file, we can draw meaningful insights into the composition of the electorate as it comes together. South Carolina is a state that makes this type of analysis difficult. While the [...]

Poll of Early Voters in Pennsylvania Shows Biden Besting Trump 79 to 19 percent

November 3, 2020|

DATE: November 3, 2020 TO: Interested parties FROM: Ben Lazarus, TargetSmart Drew Linzer and Rachel Sinderbrand, Civiqs RE: Poll of Early Voters in Pennsylvania Shows Biden Besting Trump 79 to 19 percent TargetSmart and Civiqs are releasing the topline findings of a poll conducted among early voters in Pennsylvania from Sunday, November 1st through Monday November 2nd. In the survey [...]

Early Vote Wrap-Up and Election Day Overview

November 2, 2020|

1,455 days have passed since Election Day, 2016, meaning our countdown to the 2020 election has only hours remaining. Meanwhile, more than 94 million Americans have already recorded their votes in this historic election. It’s conceivable that the overall early vote will exceed 100 million votes, when all is said and done, more than doubling the historic high set in [...]

Insights: New Functionality & Western States Closeup

October 30, 2020|

TargetSmart Insights Friday, October 30, 2020 Heading into the final home stretch we’ve added some additional functionality to our TargetEarly tool to help you analyze the historic early vote numbers. In 2016 we learned a lot about how to analyze early vote numbers. While the topline numbers may attract the most attention, to analyze the impact of early vote we [...]

Insights: First-time Voter Surge

October 27, 2020|

TargetSmart Insights Tuesday, October 27, 2020 One week until election day and 60,000,000 voters have already cast a ballot in the 2020 general election, shattering records for early vote. Significantly, first-time voters are casting their ballot at a higher rate than ever. 4,193,175 early, first-time voters have already cast their ballot. A huge portion of these voters are young - almost 40% are [...]

Insights: 50 Million Votes In & How to Interpret TX Turnout

October 25, 2020|

TargetSmart Insights Sunday, October 25, 2020 With 9 days to go until November 3 more than 50,000,000 voters have cast ballots in the 2020 general election. This is a staggering, record-breaking turnout number. To compare, at this point in 2016, 22,896,414 votes had been cast. Below are a few takeaways. Texas Is In Play Turnout in Texas is huge. So [...]

Insights: Battleground PA & Low Propensity Voters

October 22, 2020|

TargetSmart Insights Thursday, October 22, 2020 By this point, we all know that turnout is huge. At this point more than 40,000,000 Americans have already cast ballots. At TargetSmart, we match each and every one of these voters back to our voter file and are able to do a granular analysis of who exactly has voted, looking at age, race, [...]

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