Use case · policy reaction
READ A POLICY BEFORE IT IS ANNOUNCED
Ask a place about a measure, a rule or a budget choice while it is still a draft. See which way it leans, and where it splits by neighbourhood and group.
What you get
Any US place
Every city, county, metro and state on the register — not only the places a panel happens to cover.
Neighbourhood by neighbourhood
The map shows where a place leans one way and where it leans the other.
Likely voters or everyone
Read the likely electorate for a ballot question, or all residents for a service change.
The news it would land in
Give the twins a piece of news first and ask the question after it.
Studies you could run
Residents
Should the city fund street-safety improvements with a small dedicated property tax?
A reading shows: Which way the place leans, and whether outer neighbourhoods lean the other way from downtown.
Residents
Congestion pricing downtown: support or oppose?
A reading shows: Where opposition runs further, and how renters and homeowners differ.
Residents
Which should the city fund first over the next two years?
A reading shows: The order of the priorities, and which group puts a different one first.
Questions
- Who answers?
- Simulated twins of the place’s population. Each twin is modeled on the real make-up of the place — age, household, work, housing — and weighted back to it.
- Is this a poll of the electorate?
- It is a simulation of it. The twins are weighted to the place and to who is likely to vote, and the result says which way it leans, with an interval.
- Can I read it for one neighbourhood?
- Yes. Every reading can be cut by neighbourhood; the interval widens as the group gets smaller, and the result says so.
- Does it see today’s news?
- A live reading can take a news item you give it. Past-question checks never see news.
Bring us the policy decision.
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