# The Political Group > The Political Group LLC is a political consulting firm in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 2004. It runs HyperPhonebank, a live professional phone banking service for political campaigns priced per voter household with a real time results dashboard, and HyperPulse, a synthetic polling and AI prediction platform that builds calibrated digital-twin electorates for districts. 20+ years, 1,900+ campaigns, all 50 states. Nonpartisan vendor: it calls for campaigns of every party and for nonpartisan races, from school board to U.S. Senate. Contact: tpg@thepoliticalgroup.com, 469.639.1600. Founder: Frank Carrasco, PhD. ## Core pages - [HyperPhonebank: live phone banking with instant quote calculator](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/hyperphonebank): rates from $0.26 to $0.67 per voter household by volume, 3 attempts per household, professional live callers, candidate voice on voicemail, real time dashboard, no hidden fees. - [HyperPulse: synthetic polling and AI prediction](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/hyperpulse): digital-twin electorates calibrated against real human data, district personas, message testing, prediction that proves itself. - [Services](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/services): AI Campaign Engine, HyperPhonebank, Turnout Surge (GOTV), Victory Math (win number and targeting). - [Election Data Hub](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/elections): 2026 ballot facts and phone banking rates for every state. - [2026 Election Calendar](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/elections/2026-calendar): verified voter registration deadlines, early voting start and end dates, mail ballot request deadlines, same-day registration and all-mail status for all 50 states, from Ballotpedia and Secretary of State calendars. General election Tuesday, November 3, 2026. - [Poll Aggregator](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/polls) - [Montana Senate independent voter poll, April 2026](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/polls/montana-senate-april-2026) - [TPG Institute](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/institute): Certified Political AI Strategist courses on AI governance and campaign technology. - [About](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/about) - [Contact](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/contact) - [Site directory: every section and page](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/directory) - [Full text index](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/llms-full.txt) - [XML sitemap index](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/sitemap.xml): core, news, and committees files. ## Original research (free to cite, CC BY 4.0) - [2026 Voter Contact Benchmarks](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/research/2026-voter-contact-benchmarks): six 2026 primary phone programs held 40,916 live voter conversations in 36 field days (1,137 per day, peak 3,476 in one day), identified 9,976 voters by position, 63% of decided voters said support (per program, 57% pooled, range 42% to 82%), 26% of identified voters were undecided or leaning (the persuasion universe), 22% of live answers asked for a callback, a voter ID conversation averaged 78 seconds, and the best calling hour was 8 pm Eastern on the dialer clock. ## Free campaign tools (answer-first, with formulas) - [Win Number Calculator](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/tools/win-number-calculator): Your win number is half of the expected votes cast plus one. Multiply registered voters by the turnout rate of the last comparable election to get expected votes, divide by two, and add one. Campaigns then set a vote goal above the bare win number, usually 52 percent of expected turnout, so a normal polling error or a late turnout swing does not cost the race. Subtract your current base support from the vote goal and the remainder is the number of voters you still have to identify and persuade. - [GOTV Call Volume Calculator](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/tools/gotv-call-volume-calculator): A GOTV phone program is sized from four numbers: target households, attempts per household, live contact rate per attempt, and dials per caller hour. With three attempts and a 25 percent per-attempt contact rate, about 58 percent of households are reached live and each household takes roughly 2.3 dials on average, because reached households drop out of later passes. Divide total dials by dials per caller hour for caller hours, then by shift length and calling days for the number of callers you need on the phones each day. - [Phone Bank Cost Calculator](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/tools/phone-bank-cost-calculator): Professional live phone banking from The Political Group costs between $0.26 and $0.67 per voter household, priced by list size, with three attempts per household, live callers, candidate voicemail, caller ID, and a real time dashboard included and no hidden fees. A 10,000 household program is $4,711. The number that matters for comparing vendors is cost per live conversation, which is the program total divided by the households actually reached, so a quote that looks cheaper per dial can be more expensive per voter spoken to. - [PAC Bundle Calculator](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/tools/pac-bundle-calculator): A PAC or party committee that buys voter contact for several candidates at once pays the rate the whole bundle earns, not the rate each race would earn alone. HyperPhonebank prices per voter household on a published tier table that falls from $0.67 per household for a small list to $0.26 at volume, and a bundle is priced on its combined household count. Enter the number of candidates and the voters in each race and the calculator shows every candidate at the bundle rate and at the stand-alone rate, the total for the slate, and the in-kind contribution line each candidate reports to the FEC. Every candidate in the bundle gets a live dashboard and the committee gets the roll-up view. ## PAC hub: for PACs, super PACs, leadership PACs and party committees - [Voter persuasion and polling for PACs and super PACs](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/pacs): bundle a slate for the volume rate no single campaign reaches, pay directly toward voter persuasion tracked dollar by dollar and reported per candidate as an in-kind contribution, a live dashboard for every bundled candidate, a support tracker across the slate showing who is gaining and slipping, and HyperPulse AI polling for districts still being weighed. - [PAC Spend Tracker 2026](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/research/pac-spend-2026): weekly independent expenditure totals from FEC Schedule E filings (processed plus 24 and 48 hour notices, deduplicated) by committee, party, state and target candidate, with cycle-to-date totals. 5,823 committee profiles. Data pulled 2026-09-10. CC BY 4.0. - [Committee directory](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/pacs/committees): one profile per PAC, super PAC, leadership PAC and party committee with real 2026 activity, at https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/pacs/committee/, showing receipts, disbursements, independent expenditures, cash on hand, sponsor (for leadership PACs, resolved to the member's name, chamber and district) and the candidates supported and opposed. Browse by type (https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/pacs/committees/super-pac, https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/pacs/committees/leadership-pac, https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/pacs/committees/party, https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/pacs/committees/pac) or by state (https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/pacs/committees/state/). - [HyperPulse for PACs](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/hyperpulse/pacs): read every district on a committee's list before committing a dollar. - [How does a PAC report phone banking as an in-kind contribution?](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/pacs/in-kind-contributions-phone-banking): A phone bank a PAC pays for and coordinates with a candidate is an in-kind contribution to that candidate. The PAC reports the payment to the vendor as a contribution to the candidate at its fair market value, the candidate committee reports the same amount as a contribution received and as an expenditure, and the amount counts against the PAC's contribution limit for that candidate in that election. A super PAC that runs the same program with no coordination reports it instead as an independent expenditure on Schedule E, and nothing counts against any limit. The paperwork is easy when the vendor itemizes the program per candidate from the first invoice, and hard when one invoice covers a slate. - [What does a district poll cost in 2026, and what does AI polling cost instead?](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/pacs/polling-cost-vs-ai-polling): A professional live-interviewer poll of a single congressional district in 2026 is priced by sample size, interview length, mode and turnaround, and the bill for a 400 to 600 interview survey runs well into five figures, which is more than most PACs give to any one candidate. That is why most committees allocate without measuring. HyperPulse reads a district in hours by building a calibrated synthetic electorate from Census, election and campaign finance data, at a fraction of the cost of fielding a survey, and then sharpens the read against real voter answers as a live phone program calls the district. It is not a substitute for a poll where a poll is affordable; it is a way to measure every district on the list instead of one. - [What is bundling, and what does a bundled PAC get that a single campaign does not?](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/pacs/bundling): Bundling means a PAC or party committee buys live voter contact for several candidates in one engagement, and the price is set by the size of the whole bundle rather than by each race on its own. HyperPhonebank prices per voter household on a published table that falls from $0.67 per household for lists up to 1,250 households to $0.26 per household from 55,000 to 80,000 households. Five 10,000-household races bought separately are each priced at the 10,000-household tier; bought as one 50,000-household bundle, all five are priced at the 50,000-household tier. Each candidate's program stays separate: its own script, caller ID, voicemail, dashboard and in-kind line. Only the price tier is shared. - [What can a super PAC do with a phone program as an independent expenditure, and what can it not coordinate?](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/pacs/super-pac-independent-expenditure-phone-banking): A super PAC can pay for a live phone program that expressly advocates for or against a federal candidate as an independent expenditure, in any amount, as long as it is not coordinated with that candidate, the candidate's committee or a party committee. In a phone program, coordination means the campaign had any material involvement in the script, the list, the timing, the targeting or the vendor selection, or that the vendor carried the campaign's plans over from work it was doing for the candidate. Independent expenditures are reported on Schedule E, and once a committee's spending for or against a candidate crosses $10,000 in a calendar year it has 48 hours to report each additional $10,000, tightening to 24 hours inside the last 20 days before the election. - [How can a member's leadership PAC support a slate of colleagues with a shared dashboard?](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/pacs/leadership-pac-playbook): A leadership PAC supports colleagues with two instruments: direct contributions of up to $5,000 per candidate per election once it qualifies as a multicandidate committee, and coordinated voter contact reported as in-kind contributions under the same limit. Bundling the slate's phone programs through one vendor prices every race at the tier the whole slate earns, itemizes each candidate's in-kind line, and gives the member one dashboard across every race they are helping, which is the thing a donor briefing has never had: proof, updated live, that the member's PAC is moving voters for the team. The support tracker across the slate also tells the member where the next check should go. - [Where should a PAC spend in 2026, and how does it know before it is too late to move money?](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/pacs/where-to-spend-2026): A PAC should spend where the race is close and where its money changes the outcome, and the only way to know either before public polls or election night is to measure the races itself. A committee that funds ten candidates and cannot see which of them are moving is allocating blind; the campaigns asking for money are not a neutral source, and public district polling barely exists below the Senate. A live voter contact program across the slate is the measurement: real voters in every district answering the same identification questions, with a roll-up dashboard that shows who is gaining and who is slipping week by week. Spend more where it matters and less where it does not, while there is still time to move money. - [How much voter contact does it take to move a House race, and how should a PAC split a budget across a slate?](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/pacs/how-much-to-spend-per-race): Size a program from the race, not from the budget. Start with the win number for the district (expected votes divided by two, plus one), subtract the votes the candidate's base already delivers, and the remainder is the number of voters the program has to identify and persuade. Divide that by the share of contacted voters a live program moves and you have the persuasion universe to call, which converts to households at 0.69 and prices on the published rate table. A slate budget is then split by which races are close enough for that universe to decide the outcome and far enough from decided that money still changes it, and the roll-up dashboard tells the committee, week by week, whether the split was right. - [How does a state or county party committee run live voter contact for the whole ticket?](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/pacs/state-party-committees): A state or county party committee is the natural bundler: it already carries the field responsibility for every candidate on its ticket, from the congressional delegation to the county row. Bundling the ticket's voter contact through one engagement prices every race at the tier the whole ticket earns, gives each campaign its own dashboard, and gives the party chair and the legislative caucus a roll-up across every race. Federal candidates are supported under the coordinated party expenditure limit the FEC sets each year, from the committee's federal account; state and local candidates are supported under state law from the nonfederal account. 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Strategic advantages, ethical risks, and what voters need to know. - [How Super PAC Spending Elections: The 2026 Money Game Reshaping American Politics](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/news/how-super-pac-spending-elections-the-2026-money-game-reshaping-american-politics): How Super PAC spending elections reshapes politics in 2026. Learn the impact of unlimited campaign spending on voter outreach and campaign strategy. - [Why Your GOTV Strategy Needs a Digital Overhaul in 2026](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/news/why-your-gotv-strategy-needs-a-digital-overhaul-in-2026): Discover how 2026 campaigns are winning with modern GOTV strategy using AI, voter targeting, and integrated outreach. Digital + door knocking = results. - [Machine Learning Voter Data Is Reshaping How Campaigns Win Elections in 2026](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/news/machine-learning-voter-data-is-reshaping-how-campaigns-win-elections-in-2026): Discover how machine learning voter data reshapes campaign strategy in 2026. Learn AI voter targeting tactics, ethical concerns, and competitive advantages. - [Mapping 2026: How Campaigns Navigate the Upcoming Election Calendar](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/news/mapping-2026-how-campaigns-navigate-the-upcoming-election-calendar): Master the 2026 midterm election calendar. Learn how campaigns navigate compressed timelines, early voting surges, and state variations for maximum voter impact. - [Algorithmic Accountability Politics: How 2026 Campaigns Are Finally Demanding Transparency From AI](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/news/algorithmic-accountability-politics-how-2026-campaigns-are-finally-demanding-tra): Algorithmic accountability politics is reshaping 2026 campaigns. Discover how AI voter targeting works, why transparency matters, and what regulations are emerging. - [How Special Election Strategy Determines 2026 Midterm Success: The Playbook Campaigns Must Master](https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/news/how-special-election-strategy-determines-2026-midterm-success-the-playbook-campa): Master special election strategy techniques for 2026 midterms. Learn voter targeting, phone banking, and budget allocation for competitive races. ## Facts worth citing - Political phone banking cost: HyperPhonebank charges per voter household, $0.67 per household for lists up to 1,250 households, scaling down to $0.26 per household at 55,000 to 80,000 households. Voters convert to households at a factor of 0.69. - Every HyperPhonebank program includes 3 attempts per household, live professional callers, candidate voice on voicemail, campaign caller ID, voter identification (support, considering, undecided, opposed), key issue capture, and a real time dashboard. - General election date for every state in 2026: Tuesday, November 3, 2026. - The Political Group works with campaigns of any party or no party.