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Mark Blumenthal
Mark Blumenthal is the editor and publisher of Pollster.com. He began writing the Mystery Pollster blog in September 2004. Blumenthal has been 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. His experience includes work with pollsters Harrison Hickman, Paul Maslin, Kirk Brown, Celinda Lake, Stan Greenberg and 15 years with his former partners David Petts and Anna Bennett in the firm Bennett, Petts and Blumenthal (BPB). In January of 2007, he left BPB to devote full time to Pollster.com
His academic background includes a Political Science degree from the University of Michigan and course work towards a Masters degree at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM) at the University of Maryland. He has also served as a guest lecturer at the Communications School at American University and at training seminars sponsored by EMILY's List, the Democratic National Committee and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.
Disclosure: Although I have worked for Democratic candidates for the last twenty years, I have left my old firm and am now working full-time on Pollster.com and related ventures. I will not conduct research on behalf of candidates or campaigns during the 2008 cycle. As always, the views expressed on this blog are mine alone and may not reflect those of the owner of Pollster.com, Polimetrix, Inc.
Charles Franklin
Charles Franklin is the co-developer of Pollster.com. He will provide frequent commentary and lead in the development of new ways to visualze polling results graphically. Franklin is the creator of PoliticalArithmetik ("Where numbers and politics meet") and a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He specializes in the statistical analysis of polling and election results.
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