After the 2012 cycle, Blaise and a group of conservative practitioners and academics came together to form Center for Strategic Initiatives (CSI) to learn and use data to discover what works best and where the GOP can make measurable progress. In 2001, Blaise was part of the 72 Hour Task Force. She helped move the GOP from thinking of GOTV as “Getting on TV” to getting volunteers back knocking on doors and making phone calls. The 72 Hour Task Force conducted field tests to measure what tactics and persuasion methods produced the most lift. CSI provides a forum for conservatives to gather and learn from each other best campaign practices based on data, testing and science.