Ozean Political Blog

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Ranked Choice Voting – Round 1

Ranked Choice Voting – Round 1

Round 1 - Ice Cream And the winner is...... Nobody.  yet. If you are flow charting out the tabulation, here are the easy as 1-2-3 steps: Step 1 - is someone over 50%+1 (Y - declare winner, N - goto Step 2) Step 2 - eliminate the lowest vote getter and reassign votes. ...

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Ranked Choice Voting – an adventure

Ranked Choice Voting – an adventure

Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) and Ice CreamWith the pending Democrat primary race for Mayor in NYC using Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), we are thinking through the process of how to properly poll Rank Choice Voting and how to write the back-end code to do the analysis. What...

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How digital media boosts and lifts direct mail

How digital media boosts and lifts direct mail

Last year our firm was fortunate enough to have a client that liked and encouraged our desire to experiment and test. Situation We were attempting to test the validity and cost effectiveness of obtaining petitions via direct mail.  To do so, we created a self...

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Are Republicans Fleeing the Party in Florida?

Are Republicans Fleeing the Party in Florida?

If you believe the press, Republicans are fleeing the party by the thousands - especially after the Jan 6 incident at the capitol. Well, we don't believe the press at face value, and we prefer to compile our own data and make our own conclusions. In the past, we have...

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Science Friday: Who Enters Politics and Why?

Science Friday: Who Enters Politics and Why?

Most interesting research questions begin with a real life problem. A general political consultant we work with wanted to target digital ads to 'people who are thinking about running for office.'  This is what we do - we build data driven audiences for people to...

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