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📊 PART ONE: Data-Driven Field Strategy: The Mechanics of Winning Elections & The Role Parties Play

Apr 22, 2026

🎙️ Political Trade Secrets: 📊 PART ONE: Data-Driven Field Strategy: The Mechanics of Winning Elections & The Role Parties Play

Join Dustin Olson and Chris McNulty—Fmr. Political Director at the RNC and National Sales Director at In Field Strategies—as they pull back the curtain on how Republicans won back the US Senate in 2014, how Ohio transformed from purple to red, and what running campaigns is actually like. 

From field operations before modern data to the systems, structure, and strategy that determine who wins, this episode offers a behind-the-scenes look at campaigns and political parties.

The episode explores:

  •  Why direct voter contact still wins elections, and how it can be enhanced in a data-driven world
  •  Timeless principles of GOTV from Abe Lincoln to John Wayne (yes, that’s right) to today
  •  The role “party bosses” like the legendary Chairman Bob Bennett played in campaigns
 

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