Rosetta Stone Communications – Since 1997

Research Services

Election-grade opinion research, tailored to campaigns, advocacy, and institutions facing complex, rapidly shifting political environments.

A large, glass-walled research operations room filled with sleek workstations, each displaying high-resolution polling dashboards, interactive maps of electoral districts, and charts showing trends over time. Transparent acrylic dividers and minimalist black chairs emphasize a modern, analytical environment. Soft, cool-white overhead lighting combines with faint daylight from floor-to-ceiling windows, creating crisp reflections on brushed metal surfaces. The mood is professional, precise, and focused, emphasizing nonpartisan, methodical political research. Captured at eye level with a wide-angle lens, the composition uses the rule of thirds to highlight a central table covered in printed surveys, tablets, and a single open laptop, all in sharp photographic realism with clean, modern aesthetics.
A polished walnut conference table covered with carefully arranged research materials: printed survey questionnaires, color-coded clipboards, tablet devices, and a slim laptop displaying a mixed-mode polling interface with on-screen charts and response scales. Nearby, a small, unobtrusive digital voice recorder and a stack of sealed envelopes signal varied data collection methods. Neutral-toned walls hold large, frameless screens showing abstract data visualizations and nonpartisan political maps. Soft studio-style lighting from above and the side creates gentle shadows and clear highlights on paper textures and glass screens. Shot from a slightly elevated angle with moderate depth of field, the composition feels calm, methodical, and trustworthy, emphasizing rigorous political opinion research in photographic realism.

Services

We design and field custom surveys, tracking studies, voter-file matched samples, and qualitative interviews, then integrate results into clear analytics that answer strategic questions for campaigns, ballot measures, advocacy coalitions, media outlets, and mission-driven institutions.

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Pricing

Typical project budgets vary by scope, geography, and sample size; these ranges help campaigns and organizations plan.

Baseline Polling

$15,000–$35,000 per engagement for a single mixed-mode survey in one district or media market (typically 500–800 completes, topline results, and core crosstabs).

✓ Districtwide

✓ Monthly

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Strategic Tracking

$40,000–$85,000 per month for ongoing statewide or multi-district tracking, including multiple mixed-mode waves, message testing, and regular briefing memos.

✓ Mixed-mode

✓ Oversamples

✓ Rapid

✓ Spanish-language

✓ Message testing

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Comprehensive Modeling

$90,000+ for comprehensive election research programs combining baseline polling, tracking, experimental designs, and post-election analysis across multiple geographies.

✓ Longitudinal

✓ Multistate

✓ File-based

✓ Microtargeting

✓ Turnout scenarios

✓ Dashboards

✓ Advisory

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Sample political research engagements

From statewide benchmarks and down-ballot tracking to persuasion message experiments and turnout modeling, we tailor mixed-mode designs to each contest, documenting how better samples improved clarity for strategy, media planning, stakeholder reporting, and post-election evaluation.

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A large, glass-walled research operations room filled with sleek workstations, each displaying high-resolution polling dashboards, interactive maps of electoral districts, and charts showing trends over time. Transparent acrylic dividers and minimalist black chairs emphasize a modern, analytical environment. Soft, cool-white overhead lighting combines with faint daylight from floor-to-ceiling windows, creating crisp reflections on brushed metal surfaces. The mood is professional, precise, and focused, emphasizing nonpartisan, methodical political research. Captured at eye level with a wide-angle lens, the composition uses the rule of thirds to highlight a central table covered in printed surveys, tablets, and a single open laptop, all in sharp photographic realism with clean, modern aesthetics.