Candidate Research

MB Public Affairs, Inc. analyzes data and presents results in a user-friendly format designed to help clients define opponents, target messages to voters and generate favorable earned media efforts.

The firm utilizes the most up-to-date research techniques as well as more traditional field research strategies to uncover salient information from the following sources:

• Governmental records
• Proprietary news and public records databases
• News media archives
• Video / audio capture
• Blogs, social networking sites and other new media sources
• State and federal court records
• Property records and tax documents
• Business and regulatory filings
• Governmental voting records and meeting attendance
• Expense claims and reimbursements
• Campaign finance reports
• Governmental, academic and think tank reports
• Freedom of Information Act and similar state-level/local-level public information requests
• Other public records, documents and information from local, state, federal and international sources