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.