Ballotpedia is cited in about 30% of chatbot answers about candidates. If a campaign's website is silent on the issues, the model may build its answer from an old Reddit comment instead.
Just 4% of voters went to an AI tool for election information last month. But 38% read an AI summary at the top of a Google search, and about half didn't realize it was AI.
We can't copy the social media playbook for AI, but we can write the new one with the lessons we wish we'd known the first time.
The information gap between insiders and everyone else at the local level is narrowing, and campaigns will increasingly face voters who arrive informed.
The assumption that campaign staff are 22-year-olds passing through is wrong. They have families, mortgages, and roughly the same years in the industry as their peers on the vendor side.
On this episode of the Campaign Trend Podcast, I talk with Matthew Hanauer, co-founder of Civly about synthetic polling.
Much of our conversation centers on digital footprint mapping — building a seed list of a candidate's email addresses, usernames, phone numbers, and even old passwords to map their entire online presence.
AI is excellent at speed, scale, scope, and sophistication. It's terrible at relationships, personality, and judgment. The candidates who win will know which is which — and only automate the things that don't need to be them.
In this episode of the Campaign Trend Podcast, I sit down with Ben Leff, co-founder and CEO of Verasight, to test whether that promise holds up.
The latest research from the AAPC
Adrianne Marsh, CEO of Altum Insight and a 25-year Democratic operative, went to rural Nebraska expecting to hear about the economy. Her team came back talking about AI.
Josh Bandoch, head of policy at the Illinois Policy Institute joins us to discuss his new book How to Get What You Want: Mastering the Art and Science of Persuasion,
