PRESS RELEASE
from Catalist, LLC via PRNewswire-USNewswire
Catalist Releases
Preliminary Post-Election Analysis
Data Shows
Tremendous Person to Person Contact in Battleground States
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Catalist, LLC, (http://www.catalist.us)
the premier provider of voter file data to progressive organizations,
today released a preliminary post-election analysis showing a
tremendous amount of person to person voter contact in the battleground
states compared to activity in the 2004 election. Preliminary Catalist
data shows that in places where this increased voter contact took
place, outcomes for President-elect Obama were substantially better
than for the Democratic candidate in 2004. Catalist's
multi-organizations view of the data is unique in that it provides an
aggregation of activity across the progressive community as a whole,
and is not limited to the activities of the Obama for America Campaign.
The "substantially larger" amount of voter contact by the progressive
community, coupled with the data collection capabilities of Catalist,
has created a valuable asset for these organizations that can be
utilized for years to come.
"The progressive community as a whole now has a better understanding of
what more Americans care about on an individual level than ever
before," said Harold Ickes, President of Catalist. "That will help in
fundraising and organizing around a host of issues."
Preliminary data analyses by Catalist shows the following:
2008 Catalist Index
Catalist works with 90 progressive advocacy, political and not-for
profit client organizations.
Progressive organizations and campaigns using Catalist data logged
335.6 million contacts (phone, mail, email, at-the-door, et al) in the
2008 cycle.
These contacts reached more than 126 million unique people, and 259.2
million individual responses were recorded, including 18.3 million
presidential ID's for 12.1 million distinct people; this compares to 13
million presidential ID's from 8.5 million distinct people in 2004.
Progressive organizations and campaigns using Catalist data submitted
6.6 million voter registration applicants for unique individuals.
Over 250 models (indicating such attributes as likely partisanship,
turnout propensity, Obama support, likelihood to be married, likelihood
to have a college degree, support for choice, et al) were generated by
Catalist and client organizations, resulting in 8.9 billion appended
scores.
More than a dozen progressive pollsters drew nearly 2,000 poll samples.
Catalist's national voter database includes 186 million registered
voter records, and 80 million unregistered records for persons over 18
but not registered.
Client organizations have appended and stored 71.9 million membership
flags (55.2 million distinct people), and 19.3 million donor flags (8.2
million distinct people).
169 voter files across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto
Rico, and Guam, totaling 769 million individual voter records, were
processed and updated by Catalist this year.
65 million absentee and early vote records were processed, representing
12 million distinct people.
Through Catalist's web-based "Q Tools" clients queried over 5 billion
person records, and cut lists containing over 66 million person records.
Catalist collected and appended 9.4 million specialty data flags, such
as hunting, fishing, teaching, child care, pilot, doctor, nurse, and
other professional licenses, for 8.2 million distinct people.
(Represents data stored at Catalist from progressive organizations and
campaigns - as additional activity may have been collected elsewhere -
these should be considered minimums)
Additional voter data will be made available by Secretaries of State
across the country starting in January 2009, particularly turnout data
at the individual level. Catalist plans to offer a more complete
analysis of the progressive activity and outcomes in early January.
Catalist offers progressive organizations and campaigns low-cost,
subscription-based access to a unique, national database of 186+
million registered voters and 80+ million unregistered voting-age
Americans. Catalist files combine standard demographic and high-quality
political information with commercial data for messaging, fundraising,
targeting and other programmatic work to provide unprecedented
precision and effectiveness.