Race intelligence

What it is

Most campaigns start with guesses. Who actually votes in this district? Who else is running, and what's their record? What will opponents dig up on our candidate? Race intelligence replaces those guesses with a set of research briefings, produced once, near the start of your campaign, that your whole senior team works from for the rest of the race.

A package covers four things. First, the district and its electorate — who lives there, who turns out, and how the district has actually voted, so your strategy starts from the terrain rather than a hunch. Second, the field — profiles of every candidate in the race, their public records, and how the contest is shaping up. Third, opposition research on your opponents, built entirely from public records: votes, filings, court records, business registrations, press coverage, and their own public statements. Fourth — and campaigns skip this one at their peril — a self-research vulnerability audit: the same public-record treatment applied to your own candidate, so you know what opponents will find before they find it, and can decide how to handle it on your terms instead of theirs.

A word about what this is not. This is honest, lawful research from public sources — the same records any journalist or opposing campaign can pull. No pretexting, no private data, no dirty tricks. The value isn't secrets; it's the discipline of having the full public record assembled, verified, and readable before your opponents assemble it first.

How it works with your Electbase site

Race intelligence shapes what your site says. The electorate analysis tells you which issues to put on your issue pages and which voters your homepage should speak to. The candidate-field profiles tell you where you're differentiated and where you're not. And the vulnerability audit tells you what to address proactively — the strongest place to answer a predictable attack is often a plain, factual page on your own site, published before the attack lands.

What's included

A district and electorate briefing · candidate-field profiles for everyone in the race · public-record opposition research on your opponents, with sources cited · a self-research vulnerability audit on your own candidate · everything delivered as briefing documents your campaign manager, treasurer, and consultants can all read and act on — not a data dump.

How pricing works

Race intelligence is a one-time package, priced by race level — a school-board package is scoped and priced differently from a legislative or congressional one, because the size of the field and the depth of the public record differ. You pay once, you get the briefings, and they're yours for the duration of the campaign. The full rate card publishes at launch.

Who delivers it

Research is produced by the team at BlueList, the Democratic political-data firm behind Electbase. Working the public record — election results, government filings, court and campaign-finance databases — is what BlueList does every day, which is exactly the skill set this service runs on.