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About Upset Research

We are here to help you win.

Upset Research is here to help candidates win. We work on every race on the American ballot: President, United States Senate, United States House, Governor, Mayor, County Commission, City Council and School Board. The job is the same in all of them. Find out what the people voting actually want, in the words they use, early enough for the campaign to change what it does.

Why we do this

Campaigns lose races they could have won because they guessed. They guessed which issue leads, which voters were still movable and which words landed, and they found out they were wrong when the count came in.

Research removes the guess. It names the issue people raise on their own, in the words they use for it. It says which precincts still hold votes that are available, and how many. A campaign holding that in February spends its money differently from one that gets it in October.

Every finding arrives with a recommended action, what it costs, the date it has to happen by, and how much weight the evidence behind it can carry. A school board district and a presidential campaign get the same discipline at different scale.

What we do

The four services

Nothing here is sold as a package. Each engagement is scoped against the question one campaign actually needs answered, and the scope is written down before any fieldwork starts.

  • Modeling. Understand the landscape and target the right people, down to the precinct and the block.
  • Insights. Reach the people who will decide the race and find out what they think.
  • Strategy. Turn what people said into what the campaign does on Monday morning.
  • Bespoke Tech Tools. Software built for one campaign’s specific problem rather than a product sold to everyone.
See the areas of expertise

Tell us about your race.

Send the office, the election date and what you have set aside for research. We write back with what we would do, what arrives each month and what it costs.

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