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Early in 2012, Teepell, with OnMessage Inc., based in Alexandria, Virginia,  correctly forecast before the Press Club of Baton Rouge that [[U.S. President]] [[Barack Obama]] would defeat the Republican choice, [[Mitt Romney]], a Moderate Republican former governor of [[Massachusetts]] and a current U.S. Senator from [[Utah]],  by two or three percentage points but that there would be [[divided government]] with the Republican majority maintained in the U.S. House and possibly a GOP pickup of the U.S. Senate, which did not materialize.<ref name=edanderson>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/01/president_obamas_re-election_l.html|author=Ed Anderson|title=President Obama's re-election likely, Gov. Jindal's former aide says|date=January 31, 2012|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=May 29, 2020}}</ref>​

Early in 2012, Teepell, with OnMessage Inc., based in Alexandria, Virginia,  correctly forecast before the Press Club of Baton Rouge that [[U.S. President]] [[Barack Obama]] would defeat the Republican choice, [[Mitt Romney]], a Moderate Republican former governor of [[Massachusetts]] and a current U.S. Senator from [[Utah]],  by two or three percentage points but that there would be [[divided government]] with the Republican majority maintained in the U.S. House and possibly a GOP pickup of the U.S. Senate, which did not materialize.<ref name=edanderson>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/01/president_obamas_re-election_l.html|author=Ed Anderson|title=President Obama's re-election likely, Gov. Jindal's former aide says|date=January 31, 2012|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=May 29, 2020}}</ref>​

In 2013, Teepell and OnMessage, Inc., worked in the campaign of state Senator (now state Representative)  [[Neil Riser]] of Columbia in Caldwell Parish, in Louisiana's 5th congressional district [[special election]] to fill the seat vacated by Republican [[Rodney Alexander]], who left Congress to join the Jindal administration as secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theadvocate.com/home/6863564-125/riser-claims-fec-mistaken|title=Riser claims FEC mistaken|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=October 14, 2013|accessdate=October 25, 2013}}</ref>On November 16, 2013, Riser was handily defeated in a runoff election with fellow Republican Vance McAllister, a businessman in Ouachita Parish who previously unknown politically. According to the office of then  Louisiana Secretary of State [[Tom Schedler]] in Baton Rouge, McAllister defeated Riser, Teepell's candidate, 54,449 (59.7 percent) to 36,837 (40.3 percent), with all 981 precincts reporting.<ref name=novreturns>{Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 16, 2013.</ref> McAllister served less than a year in office, caught up in a crippling sex scandal.

In 2013, Teepell and OnMessage, Inc., worked in the campaign of state Senator (now state Representative)  [[Neil Riser]] of Columbia in Caldwell Parish, in Louisiana's 5th congressional district [[special election]] to fill the seat vacated by Republican [[Rodney Alexander]], who left Congress to join the Jindal administration as secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs.<ref>"Riser claims FEC mistaken," ''The Baton Rouge Advocate,'' October 14, 2013.</ref> On November 16, 2013, Riser was handily defeated in a runoff election with fellow Republican Vance McAllister, a businessman in Ouachita Parish who previously unknown politically. According to the office of then  Louisiana Secretary of State [[Tom Schedler]] in Baton Rouge, McAllister defeated Riser, Teepell's candidate, 54,449 (59.7 percent) to 36,837 (40.3 percent), with all 981 precincts reporting.<ref name=novreturns>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 16, 2013.</ref> McAllister served less than a year in office, caught up in a crippling sex scandal.

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