WHO WE ARE

In 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt and her friends had an idea for an organization that would pool the resources of small contributors from across the country and spend those funds to help elect the most progressive candidates to the U.S. Senate and House.

They called it the National Committee for an Effective Congress.

Their method was simple:

	Target key races.
	Support the best and most electable candidates.
	Select the contests where NCEC support could be decisive.

The idea worked, and today NCEC is a vital force in American Politics. NCEC supports progressive candidates who fight for the issues we believe in, like freedom of choice, separation of church and state, gun control, equal rights, and environmental protection.

Some names, like Feinstein and Kennedy, you may already know and support. But many NCEC candidates run campaigns with tight budgets and need every bit of help they can get to beat the Religious Right- dominated Republican Party.

They need our help. And to give it, we need yours.

Board of Directors

NCEC's Candidate Services

As a progressive, full-service political committee, today's NCEC services include:

	Electoral precinct targeting
	Demographic precinct targeting
	Voter profile analysis
	Get-out-the-vote plans
	Candidate scheduling plans
	Media market analyses
	Polling sample selections
	Vote goal analyses

NCEC has developed the most sophisticated methods of voter identification ever employed in Congressional elections. Using precinct election returns and strategic targeting analysis, we advise our candidates:

	How to reach "swing" voters, who determine victory and defeat.
	How to maximize and target limited resources.
	How to make the most of tight media budgets.
	How to plan candidate schedules.

In the 2008 election, our accuracy was second to none as our overall turnout projections were off by just 19,000 votes out of 131 million votes cast. NCEC supported more than 200 candidates with our targeting and consultation in 2008.