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If you're reading this magazine there is a good chance you are familiar with a voter file. For a generation, it has been the common ingredient in everything we do. [...]

Traditional media isn't collapsing, but it sure isn't growing. 2012 marked the first decline in television ownership since its invention. With the end of Saturday mail delivery, the cash-strapped Postal [...]

Running this 30-year-old institution means we have the responsibility--or burden, depending on how you look at it--to have to consider the 'struck by lightning' scenario a million different ways. Here's [...]

Tracking major campaigns even in the off-season can be a daunting task. There were three errors in the December Win-Loss list: Voter Survey Service was inaccurately listed as Susquehanna Polling. [...]

It's time to end waste, fraud and abuse. I don't mean in government. I mean in our campaign messaging. We have become so adept at finding a phrase that works [...]

The professional political community lost a friend and mentor recently, Alan Locke. A longtime Campaigns & Elections employee, Alan spent years growing our organization. He was a friend who challenged [...]

Thirty years ago this month, the first issue of Campaigns & Elections was published. Between the covers of Volume 1, Issue 1 lay the future community of political professionals. I [...]

This is the 50th issue in my tenure as publisher at Campaigns & Elections. In the years I've been around 'we've made some important changes and modernizations, most of which [...]

Since our launch in 1980, each successive publisher has taken care to keep Campaigns & Elections out of the policy debates that defined most other magazines. We're followed equally by [...]

Summer break is over, my friends. The signs are here. In Washington, the interns have departed and the traffic has returned. My son has started kindergarten and hordes of recent [...]

Exactly twenty years ago, Francis Fukuyama famously declared 'the end of history' because the debate over how humans should govern themselves was nearing its end. At that point, Western liberal [...]

My home phone number is (202) 652-0039. Call it. Your chance of reaching a live person is not so good. When nobody picks up, leave a message. I haven't checked [...]

As we wrapped up the recent Politics Online conference, run in partnership with George Washington University and the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, I was struck by the [...]

Trying to figure out who invented political consulting is sort of like the debate over who invented baseball. The further we get away from the origins of the game, the [...]

While many in our community are preparing for the next campaign, we're closely watching four areas that will define our industry for years to come: Will the technological leaps of [...]

Full disclosure: I haven't followed Obama's first hundred days. Our attention has already swung to the tens of thousands of local candidates up for election in 2009. It's enough to [...]

Since the close of the 2008 campaign cycle, my role has been to plan. Planning to support our long-term print advertisers, planning to keep Campaigns & Elections strong while other [...]

If you are reading this magazine, there is a 90 percent chance you worked on a campaign this fall. You may have developed an unhealthy personal relationship with David Axelrod [...]

Families have a way of making brutal observations seem so loving. My cousin, a high-profile magazine editor, recently described me as experienced in the 'black arts' of campaigning. That was [...]

Campaigns & Elections--in fact the entire political community--lost a pioneer and I lost a friend last month. Stanley Foster Reed, the founder of our magazine, passed away after a long [...]

If you think Rove's first race was Bush-Cheney 2000, you are wrong. If you think James Carville's first race was Clinton-Gore 1992 wrong again. And if you thought Arthur Finkelstein's [...]

The article announces the resignation of associate publisher Tracy Dietz and her transfer to the voter data shop Labels & Lists.

The article enumerates the errors in the December 2009 win-loss list in the U.S. including the Voter Survey Service being inaccurately listed as Susquehanna Polling, failure to list Gold Communications as W/W, and incomplete Public Opinion Strategies' winners list.

The article discusses the impact of the growing number of households in the U.S. that utilize wireless phones only on political pollsters and opinion researchers. Adam Geller of National Research describes how he deals with the challenge of reaching wireless-only households. Randall Gutermuth from American Viewpoint relates how they address the effect of cell phones on political polling. It explores the decision of some pollsters to move into interactive polling.