Facts About PACs Podcast

The Facts About PACs Podcast is the #1 PAC podcast in America. The show is produced especially for the members of the National Association of Business Political Action Committees (NABPAC). Each weekly episode includes a recap of the association's latest activities, actionable intelligence for the employee-funded and business trade association PAC community, and an interview with a featured guest. Show host Micaela Isler is the President and CEO of NAPBAC.

Facts About PACs Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 239 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Facts About PACs Podcast, a education show with 239 episodes published.

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  Episode #26

  It's an Election, Not an Auction

  Aug 28, 202622 minS7

  Five Senate primaries this cycle. Five candidates with an enormous money advantage. Five losses. Dr. Casey Burgat of George Washington University joins Micaela Isler and Adam Belmar to work out what campaign money actually buys, and where it stops working. Casey’s Substack piece “ So Much for Buying Elections ” is the starting point, but the conversation turns practical fast: if the late advertising blitz has the worst return, what does that say about the PAC dollar written early, off a relationship, before anyone knows the race is competitive? Crash Course with Casey Burgat https://www.caseyburgat.com/

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  Episode #25

  A Poll No Human Ever Took

  Aug 20, 202618 minS7

  Two primaries, two big polling misses. Eric Wilson of the Center for Campaign Innovation and the Campaign Trend Podcast returns to explain what broke in Wisconsin and Michigan, what margin of error really measures, whether AI "synthetic polls" deserve a line in your research budget, and how PAC directors should allocate resources when the numbers can't be trusted. Plus: the four types of voters — mobilizers, connectors, spectators, outsiders — and why the loudest 9% is distorting what campaigns think they know.

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  Episode #24

  PAConomics: Why Good Economies Make PAC Fundraising Harder

  Aug 13, 202618 minS7

  How much of your PAC's fundraising year is you — and how much is just the economy you're operating in? Chad Taylor of SAGAC Public Affairs put it to the test: 15 cycles, 300 business PACs, $4 billion in receipts. The surprise? When you de-trend the data, a hotter economy means slower fundraising. Uncertainty drives giving; prosperity doesn't. Adam Belmar and David Schild unpack the "insurance theory" of PAC fundraising, the three-factor UPP check for reading your cycle, and why your fall ask should open with the congressional calendar — not last quarter's earnings.

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  Episode #23

  Trust Recession

  Jul 23, 202618 minS7

  Congress sits at 9% trust and gets reelected at 90%+ anyway. Americans trust big business at 17%, but the shop down the street gets 67%. What's going on? This week, Michaela, David, and Adam dig into Bruce Mehlman's "trust recession" data with Lauren Colicelli (AVP, Strategic Political Engagement, American Council of Life Insurers; NABPAC Vice Chair) to figure out what it means for employee-funded and business trade association PAC programs. The throughline: trust collapses at a distance and holds up close, so the winning move isn't fixing Washington's numbers — it's closing the distance between your program and your people.

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  Episode #22

  From Cutting Chicken to Capitol Hill

  Jul 16, 202615 minS7

  It's our annual rite of summer: a conversation with NABPAC's intern from The Fund for American Studies . This year that's Brandon New, a rising junior studying finance at the University of Florida who came to Washington by way of the Florida House of Representatives — and who very nearly missed the whole thing when his reply to Micaela's interview offer landed in a spam folder. Micaela Isler, David Schild, and Adam Belmar talk with Brandon about what a summer inside the PAC community actually teaches you. He spent it in FEC data, in meetings with PAC directors and government relations professionals, and in a TFAS debate where he found himself correcting his classmates on contribution limits and disclosure. He also talks about coming back to a city he first saw at eleven years old on a Capitol tour — this time with a badge — and what that means to a family built by a Vietnamese immigrant mother, a veteran father, and a grandfather who served in World War II. His advice to the next student thinking about it: take the leap. Every opportunity, every coffee chat, every application you don't think you'll get. This is NABPAC's fifth TFAS intern, and every one of them has been on this show. For PAC directors listening: it's a reminder of what an intern brings to your organization — and what you give back to the next generation.

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