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Friends, For more than a month we have been sharing updates here and on Twitter on how women are registering to vote in record numbers since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Now we’re proud to be releasing a first-of-its kind dashboard that gives you the most up-to-date voter registration data at your fingertips. The TargetSmart Voter Registration [...]
TargetSmart is proud to have built a first-of-its kind dashboard that gives you the most up-to-date voter registration data at your fingertips. This dashboard includes voter registration data from the 2018, 2020, and 2022 election cycles, allowing you to compare what we are currently seeing with past election cycles. It is updated twice a week and includes a wealth [...]
This blog post marks the first in a series of reports digging deeper into the data from the 2020 general election. You can find an introduction to the series and background on TargetSmart’s voter file here. In 2020, more young voters cast a ballot than ever before. In total, voters aged 18-39 accounted for more than 44 million voters in 2020, [...]
By: Tom Bonier, TargetSmart CEO A swing of just 21,459 votes from Biden to Trump would have reversed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. That equates to one one-hundredth of one percent of the record setting total turnout of more than 158 million votes cast. The relative closeness of this election has been well-reported. What has perhaps been missed [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]