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,
In this episode of the Campaign Trend Podcast, we dig into a fundamental shift in how that power is now being constructed — and what it means for everyone from first-time congressional candidates to major trade associations.
In this episode of the Campaign Trend Podcast, Chauncey Southworth, CEO of Cross Screen Media, unpacks how campaigns are navigating the evolving video advertising landscape
Pollster David Kanevsky discusses the results of the Center for Campaign Innovation's 2025 Post-Election Survey.
In this episode of the Campaign Trend Podcast, Eric Wilson talks with John Link, Senior Vice President of Data at Ad Impact, to unpack what’s behind the eye-popping projections in Ad Impact’s 2025–2026 Political Projections Report.
