Mark Blumenthal

Mark Blumenthal is the senior polling editor of the Huffington Post and the founding editor of Pollster.com. Along with Pollster co-founder Charles Franklin, he received the Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award for Pollster.com from the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). Blumenthal worked in the political polling business for more than 20 years, conducting and analyzing political polls and focus groups for Democratic candidates and market research surveys for major corporations.

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Jon Cohen

Jon Cohen is director of polling and polling editor at The Washington Post. He is responsible for conceptualizing, implementing and analyzing all Post polls, and co-directs the Post-ABC and Post-Kaiser surveys. He instituted the Post’s polling blog, and frequently discusses public opinion on radio and television. He also crunches exit poll numbers, providing guidance for the Post’s election night decision operation.

Jon recently served on the executive council of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). In addition to The Washington Post, his work has appeared in Public Opinion Quarterly and other publications. Before joining the Post, he was assistant polling director at ABC News in New York and associate survey director at the Public Policy Institute of California in San Francisco. He holds an M.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University.

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Margie Omero

President & founder of Momentum Analysis, a Democratic public opinion research firm in Washington, DC. Clients have included the DNC, the DCCC, EMILY’s List, Members of Congress, non-profits, labor unions, & campaigns from City Council to US Senate. An award-winning pollster, named both a “Mover and Shaker” by Campaigns & Elections magazine, and one of “50 Politicos to Watch” by Politico. Founded Working Women for Virginia, the only organization to run television advertising against now Governor McDonnell’s extreme views on women.

Work as a pollster.com/Huffington Post blogger has appeared on Hardball, in ABC’s The Note, the Washington Post, and in Salon.com.Frequently comments on political trends, and appears regularly on television, radio, and in print, including election-night coverage for networks around the world.

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David C. Wilson

David C. Wilson, Ph.D. is a professor in the Departments of Political Science and Internal Relations, and holds joint appointments in the Department of Psychology, and the Black American Studies Program at the University of Delaware. He is also the Coordinator of Public Opinion Initiatives at the University’s Center for Political Communication. He specializes in political psychology, public opinion and polling, group attitudes, organizational behavior, and survey research methodology. Prior to his work at the University of Delaware, he held senior positions with the Gallup Polling Organization, and worked on several national surveys examining topics ranging from workplace creativity to prejudice in politics. Professor Wilson earned his bachelor’s degree in government from Western Kentucky University, and multiple master’s degrees – MPA (public policy and administration) and MA (political science) — and a PhD in political science from Michigan State University.

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