A division of CommonSense Strategies Group
Candidate training, campaign setup, communications, election day operations and projections — for candidates and causes that need to run a real campaign without a national firm's price tag. For candidates and causes that need to run a real campaign — without a national firm's price tag or a fifty-page deck of buzzwords.
What we do
Take the whole arc or just the piece you are missing. Each engagement starts with a short call and a written scope.
Run like you mean it
Practical training for first-time and returning candidates: how to stay on message, raise money, work a room and run a campaign that does not run you.
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group cohorts or one-on-one
From filing day to field plan
The infrastructure a real campaign needs, stood up fast: compliance, voter file, finance tracking, website and a digital HQ so you can stop assembling tools and start talking to voters.
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one-time setup engagement
Message, media, momentum
A written plan and the content to back it: message development, a weekly calendar, earned media, paid digital and the scripts your volunteers can actually use.
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monthly or cycle engagement
Every vote, counted
A GOTV plan that does not leave votes on the table: poll coverage, rides to the polls, cure and chase, and a war room that watches returns and reacts.
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final 2-4 weeks
Know your path to 50%+1
Numbers you can trust: voter modeling, turnout projections and budget scenarios that tell you where to spend the next dollar and whether the race is winnable at all.
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one-time or cycle engagement
Specialized offering
MR-S2S Election Intelligence
Evidence in. Seat-by-seat forecasts out.
Specialized offering
Evidence in. Seat-by-seat forecasts out. Your judgment in control.
Most local campaigns run on instinct, rumor, and whatever the last phone call said. National campaigns have pollsters and data teams. Local ones have a candidate, a few volunteers, and a budget that won't stretch to a single poll. The MR-S2S Election Intelligence Platform closes that gap. Built on the Michael Roberts SWOT-to-Seats Model, it turns the daily flood of local news and social media into a disciplined, district-by-district read of where a race stands and where it's moving.
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Each day, or on demand, the platform sweeps local news outlets, the open web, and social channels for every party, candidate, and seat in your race. Every item is logged, tagged to a seat, and graded for source reliability and credibility.
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From that evidence it proposes updated strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat scores for each seat, citing the exact items behind every change.
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No proposed score enters the forecast until a strategist approves or adjusts it. Once approved, the model produces projected margins, win probabilities, and a rating for every seat, plus a daily brief delivered to your inbox.
Projected margins, win probabilities, and ratings for every district, ward, or constituency.
Local outlets, Google News, RSS feeds, and the open web, swept every day or at the press of a button.
Posts from Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and X, plus WhatsApp chat exports you upload.
Every item is rated for reliability and credibility, so a verified report outweighs a rumor.
Scores move one point at a time, only with cited evidence, and only after you sign off.
Social findings carry confidence ranges, small samples are flagged, and online chatter is never treated as a poll.
Identical text from multiple accounts is flagged as a sign of organized activity.
A plain-language summary of what changed and why, emailed to your team.
Roughly $1 to $3 a day in AI usage to monitor one election.
Runs the daily monitoring, evidence log, and dashboard.
Runs the same model in conversation for quick what-if questions. Both use one model and one file format, so work moves freely between them.
Built on experience
MR-S2S comes out of more than four decades of campaign and communications strategy in New York and the Caribbean. It was field-tested in a winning 2026 constituency campaign in Grenada. The technology does the gathering and sorting. The strategist makes the calls.
Sliding fee scale based on the size of the campaign
Consultation from $1,500one hour
Built for small, local campaigns that need real intelligence without a national firm's price tag. The first call is still free, so we can look at your race and confirm the platform fits.
FAQ
Straight answers on the process and on the sliding fee scale we use for different campaign sizes.
Thirty minutes to look at your race, your district and your numbers. You leave with a plan either way.
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