ABOUT NCEC
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.
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. |
Your NCEC contribution goes farther and has maximum leverage and political impact from the earliest stages of the campaign through election day. In fact, our candidates consider NCEC services the most valuable contribution they receive, because it helps them to plan and execute every phase of their campaigns.
