The RNC Redistricting Department has an excellent map that provides information on everything you need to know about the national landscape. You can download a PDF of the map from the RNC website at http://bit.ly/btFpIb or you can download it from the Magellan website RNC Redistricting National Wallmap as of 032910.
Everyday businesses, industry associations, political organizations and campaigns come to the realization that their efforts would be more effective by enhancing their databases. While the goals of these different entities vary, the need to enhance data is the same. Magellan provides several enhancement services including phone numbers, political geography (CD, SD, LD), county coding, zip codes, and emails. [...]
Data modeling allows campaigns to build support among a universe of voters that would not be targeted using traditional methods. Modeling can sigfnificantly increase fundraising and development efforts by prospecting from a list of donor and non-donor records that have been modeled. Magellan provides data modeling services to campaigns and organizations to meet these needs. Our modeling methodology begins with a survey of 1,800 to 2,500 individuals [...]
The most vital asset to any political campaign or organization is the voter registration database. If your voter file is old or out of date, then your voter contact efforts will be less effective and you will end up wasting time and money. Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies maintains a national voter registration database of 177 million [...]
One year from now, the US Census Bureau will be releasing population data from the 2010 Census. In state capitols across the country, legislative staff, redistricting consultants and Republican stakeholders will be importing those data into their redistricting software systems. That is the easy part. The hard part is compiling the political data that will be [...]
