INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

WE DON'T CITE
OTHER PEOPLE'S DATA.

Long Drive Strategy runs its own independent statewide polls. Real methodology. Real sample sizes. Published with full transparency, rigorous enough to quote and defensible enough to trust. Numbers your campaign can act on, and stand behind.

10K+

Voters Polled

States Covered

±3%

Margin

100%

Methodology Published

HOW IT WORKS

THE POLLING MACHINE.

Most political consultants buy data from someone else and repackage it. We generate our own, and that changes everything.

QUESTIONNAIRE

We run targeted ad campaigns driving voters to our issue questionnaire. Thousands of real voters sharing real opinions on real issues, not a panel of professionals.

DATA COLLECTION

Responses captured with full demographic and geographic data. Every response builds our voter sentiment database, our email list, and our predictive models.

ANALYSIS

Cross-tabulation by region, age, party, and issue priority. We don't just know what a state thinks. We know what every district, demographic, and persuasion segment thinks.

PUBLICATION

Results published with full methodology and distributed to newsrooms statewide, transparent enough to quote and rigorous enough to trust.

AUTHORITY

Transparent, methodology-first polling is built to earn coverage and credibility, building authority that compounds for every client we represent.

CLIENT INTELLIGENCE

Campaign clients get early access to polling data plus custom district-level analysis. Information advantage that translates directly to message advantage.

FOR CAMPAIGNS

YOUR OPPONENT IS GUESSING.
YOU WON'T BE.

Campaign clients don't just get published polling. They get custom intelligence. District-level data, micro-targeting insights, and message testing that tells you exactly what to say, where to say it, and who to say it to.

EARLY ACCESS

See poll results before they're published. Plan your messaging while your opponent is still reacting to headlines.

CUSTOM ANALYSIS

Your district. Your issues. Your voters. Custom cross-tabs that tell you exactly where to focus resources and money.

MESSAGE TESTING

Which frame wins? Which attack lands? Which response neutralizes? Test before you spend. Kill what doesn't work before it costs you.

TRACKING POLLS

Regular pulse checks throughout the campaign. Know if you're gaining or losing ground in real time, not from a gut feeling.

THE DIFFERENCE

MOST POLLSTERS SELL
SOMEONE ELSE'S DATA.

We generate our own. That's not a small difference. It's the entire difference.

TYPICAL POLITICAL POLLSTER

License third-party data and repackage it with your logo

800-person national sample extrapolated to your district

Results delivered in a PDF two weeks after the field

No media credibility. Their polls never get published

Same pollster working for five campaigns in your state

LONG DRIVE STRATEGY

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Generate our own data from 10,000+ real voter responses

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District-level crosstabs with ±3% margin of error

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Real-time dashboards. See sentiment shift as it happens

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Media-cited results that build your campaign's credibility

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Your data stays yours. Competitive exclusivity guaranteed

THE INFORMATION GAP

WINNING CAMPAIGNS
KNOW THEIR NUMBERS.

The campaigns that invest in real research win more often, because you cannot move voters you have not measured. We generate the numbers that drive every other decision on the campaign.

68%

Of winning campaigns invested in private polling during the primary

5–8 PTS

Average advantage for campaigns with message-tested ads vs. untested

$0.12

Cost per response through our digital questionnaire. 10X cheaper than phone polls

THE LONG DRIVE GROUP

THREE DIVISIONS.
ONE STANDARD.

Data without execution is a spreadsheet. Long Drive Strategy's polling feeds directly into campaign operations, digital advertising, and crisis response. All under one roof.