About The 120
The numbers desk of Tanner Norkus Consulting.
I'm Lisa Norkus — over twenty years of Kentucky Democratic campaign operations. Field, finance, party-building, the boring parts of running for office that actually decide who wins. I built The 120 to publish what I see in the numbers before, during, and after a cycle: straight, without spin, with the receipts.
The receipts
20+ yrs
Kentucky Democratic operative
Working campaigns and party infrastructure across the commonwealth since 2004.
120
Counties, one GOTV plan — 2007
Beshear–Mongiardo. The first operative to coordinate all 120 Kentucky counties on a single election-weekend operation.
$2.95
Cost per vote — 2016 U.S. Senate
Jim Gray for U.S. Senate: 42.7% in a Trump-wave year, one of the most cost-efficient Democratic Senate runs in the modern Kentucky dataset.
How I read it
Everything here is reconciled to two sources: the Kentucky Secretary of State's results and the county clerks' SOVCs. When those two disagree, I don't pick the convenient one — I show the disagreement.
And I publish the read even when it's bad for my own side. A number that only tells you what you want to hear isn't analysis, it's a press release. The honesty is the whole point — it's what makes the good news worth anything.
What you'll find here
How to reach me
Email lisa@tannernorkus.com. If you caught a number that's wrong, tell me — I'll fix it and credit you. The 120 is an endorsed desk of Tanner Norkus Consulting.