Election Night with Biden’s Data Guru

Becca Siegel was the Biden campaign’s point person on numbers. Photo: Courtesy of Becca Siegel The last time chief analytics officer Becca Siegel had been inside Joe Biden’s sprawling campaign headquarters in Center City Philadelphia, her department had about 15 staffers on its payroll. That was in March. In late October, her team had ballooned to about ten times that size, but now only nine of her colleagues could join her in person — from a safe distance, wearing N95 masks, subject to a regular virus-testing protocol — for the final sprint to Election Day. Siegel, who had spent most of the pandemic working from a basement in tiny Manitou Springs, Colorado, had begun preparing for the first Tuesday in November months earlier. “Normally, I’m pretty low-key about it, because when the polls are closed, the votes have been won,” she said, speaking a few days after the AP and the networks had finally declared Biden the winner. “But this one was obviously a different situation. Because of the occupant of the White House, and the way the votes were going to be counted, it was clearly much more complicated.” Their task was to figure out, in real time, if Biden… Read full this story

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