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Company factsheet

Product
VoteROI.com Mood Forecast: behavioral mood index for every US state, refreshed daily.
Operator
VoteROI.com LLC, Spruce Pine, North Carolina.
Founder
David B. Wheeler (Big D). Founder VoteROI.com LLC. Co-Founder American Muckrakers PAC II. Host, MUCK YOU podcast. 4x candidate for office in North Carolina. Has visited 75+ countries across all 7 continents.
Methodology
13 behavioral dimensions, L2-regularized logistic regression with a national midterm thermostat term and a selective recalibration (two-speed), serving weights fit on the 2022 and 2024 senate and governor races. The 2014-2024 record is the backtest corpus. Current Brier 0.119 (pooled leave-one-cycle-out out-of-sample) vs. 0.250 coin-flip baseline.
Voice
The National Weather Service for civic emotions. Forecasts, advisories, watches. Honest about uncertainty.

Founder bio

David B. Wheeler is the founder of VoteROI.com LLC, the donor intelligence platform built on 86.9 million FEC contribution records covering federal races from 2000 through 2026. He's Co-Founder of American Muckrakers PAC II and host of the MUCK YOU podcast. He's run for office in North Carolina four times. He has visited 75+ countries across all seven continents. He lives in Spruce Pine, NC.

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Inquiries

Interviews, methodology questions, data verification, custom cuts of the index: press@voteroi.com. Founder available for podcast and radio.