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WPAi Wins Big at 2019 CampaignTech Awards

Last night, Chris Wilson, CEO of WPA Intelligence (WPAi), was named Technology Leader of the Year by Campaigns & Elections. During the 2018 cycle, Wilson led WPAi’s team as they developed technology tools and products for races at all levels of politics. Under his leadership, the WPAi team:

  • Deployed Archimedes, an advanced campaign data management and visualization tool that makes data and polling a “living” part of the campaign environment.
  • Built Leonardo, a next-generation campaign gamification app adapted for both domestic and international political campaigns.
  • Developed a custom predictive analytics platform that enabled the WPAi team to train as many as 40 independent models each night and score as many as 23 million voters nightly.
  • Built an innovative field program optimization model to deploy a 200+ person field team to yield maximum contacts with individual campaign targets.
  • Combined machine learning and traditional polling to integrate the targeting insights of predictive analytics with the message testing power of WPAi’s Message Mapping tool to ensure that each campaign mode and target set was reached with the most effective possible message.
  • Conducted a variety of designed and natural experiments to identify optimal frequency of digital voter contact, the impact of social pressure/mail/digital/peer-to-peer texting, and the optimal window for door-to-door turnout operations.

Wilson’s win is accompanied by other recognitions this cycle. The American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) awarded WPAi “Pollies” for their Predictive Analytics and Adaptive Sampling techniques, their groundbreaking data-focused social media application, and for best use of analytics. In addition, WPAi has received four “Reed Awards” for most expansive optimized field program in GOP politics, best use of data analytics/machine learning, best data analytics solution, and best use of online targeting.

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Real Clear Policy: Voters Unsure on Green New Deal- But Want to Hear More from GOP

This piece originally appeared on RealClear Policy
Voters Unsure on Green New Deal — But Want to Hear More from GOP
By: Heather Reams & Ashlee Rich Stephenson

The Green New Deal is the hot topic of inside of the Beltway chatter. Almost immediately upon introduction, nearly every Democrat who had announced his or her 2020 candidacy for president, including sitting U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), endorsed this political non-starter. And on the other side of the aisle, Republicans are rightly willing to step aside and allow this political gold to become a political noose for Democrats in 2020.

However, Republicans shouldn’t sit on the sidelines for too long. Such a golden chance to offer a reasonable alternative proposal doesn’t come around often in this town.

Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) Forum commissioned a new national poll of actual voters that found that seven in ten agree that Republicans in Congress should present their own set of solutions to reduce carbon emissions. This includes an equal percentage of Republican voters as Independents and an even higher proportion of Republican women.

Importantly, the results suggest that right now is a particularly critical time for Republican lawmakers to offer an alternative; the poll also found that overall awareness of the Green New Deal is soft. Nearly six out of ten have not heard much (26 percent) or have heard nothing at all (31 percent) about the Democrats’ proposed plan to address climate change. This means there is a clear opening to craft a Republican plan.

Republicans should also take notice of a changing electorate and its views on climate change and the need to address it. Almost half of those surveyed said their personal views regarding climate change have evolved a lot (25 percent) or some (23 percent), to the point that over three-quarters (78 percent) now believe human impact causes climate change, including 62 percent of Republicans and 79 percent of Independents.

To those of us on the Right, the Green New Deal has shifted from political folly to call to action for a 2020 election cycle in which we must win back voters we lost in 2018. So what’s next? Republicans need to champion their own solutions to further emission reductions, including grid modernization, regulatory reform, tax incentives and greater investment in clean energy and storage research. Such developments will enable industry and the power of the free market to innovate and move more quickly. We need to expand energy efficiency and align federal and state policies that too often prevent clean energy advancement.

And contrary to what we read in the Green New Deal or hear from left-wing climate activists, we need emissions reduction policies that work with American businesses instead of stifling them. We are a capitalist nation, and Americans deserve and require solutions that don’t compromise the private sector.

Accordingly, the survey found that nearly seven in ten support government legislation that incentivizes the market to accelerate clean energy (67%) versus a comprehensive program that is run by the federal government (17%), with equal numbers support between men and women. Clean energy expansion is not only good politics but it’s good policy as it balances our needs as the leading industrialized nation while protecting our environment. Renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar and hydropower, create well-paying jobs and encourage economic development. A large portion of those jobs are located in rural America. In fact, solar installers and wind turbine technicians are two of the fastest growing jobs in the country, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Green New Deal is an abysmal policy blunder and major political miscue, but it’s given Republicans the opportunity to take back control of the narrative on environmental issues. This, in turn, means a stronger chance for victory in what is sure to be a bruising election cycle.

Heather Reams is Executive Director of Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) Forum, a conservative energy policy non-profit organization. Ashlee Rich Stephenson is Chief Strategy Officer at WPA Intelligence (WPAi), a Republican polling and consulting firm.


“The Devil is in the Data” CPAC 2019

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