Every American political campaigner working today is operating inside a structure Lee Atwater built. The architect of the modern campaign manager role — first entry on The Campaigner Index 2026.
Lee Atwater died in 1991 at forty. The structure he built — opposition research, paid media, earned media, and third-party validators run as one coordinated effort — is the structure every American political campaigner now operates inside.
Sixty operators defining modern political influence — across Washington, Westminster, Jerusalem, Delhi, and the capitals of the global campaign trade. The Campaigner Index 2026, Edition 1.