Evan Roth Smith

Founding Partner

Evan Roth Smith is a campaign consultant and pollster whose work includes federal, state, and local races, international opinion research, as well as independent expenditures and nonprofit advisory. As a founding partner of Slingshot Strategies, he has worked to grow the company from a boutique startup to a major firm with national and international clients. Prior to founding Slingshot, Evan worked on campaigns, in government offices, and for leading pollsters and consultants.

Evan has run polling, data, and targeting operations in every state and hundreds of districts, as well as France, Japan, Israel, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Canada, India, China, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. He has served as an advisor to campaigns and causes of all kinds, drawing on a breadth of experience across data analysis, media relations, and electoral projects to guide both day-to-day and strategic decision making. Outside of expressly political work, Evan has led and managed multimillion-dollar donor advisory initiatives in the nonprofit space, working with large donors to deliver resources for tailor-built projects premised on accountability and clear results.

Evan is the coauthor of Putin's Master Plan (Encounter, 2016), a prescient book on Russian foreign policy ambitions researched and written in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Estonia, Sweden, Moldova, Turkey, Mongolia, Greece, and the unrecognized breakaway territory of Transnistria.

Evan’s polling, writing, and commentary has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, CNN, The BBC, NPR, NBC, Telemundo, FiveThirtyEight, Vice, The Daily Beast, National Journal, Fox News, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, The Huffington Post, Politico, Daily Kos, The American Prospect, and Newsday, among other outlets.