When I interviewed with Stan Greenberg back in 1999, I felt the need to come clean. Referring to the movie about Bill Clinton’s 1992 electoral triumph in which Stan featured prominently, I told him: “You should know I never saw ‘The War Room.’ And I never will. The wrong guy wins!”
Stan chuckled with after-the-fact magnanimity. […]

Jewish Woman Magazine names my dear friend Molly Levinson one of the “10 Women to Watch in 5768″:
While working as an analyst for a prominent public-opinion research firm, Molly Levinson had an epiphany: She was a storyteller, not a number cruncher. “When it comes to politics, people’s eyes often glaze over,” she says. “But that’s […]

I’m always amused by the image Whole Foods shoppers must be conjuring as they go out of their way to purchase something “organic”: cute little 19th century farmhouses with kids getting up early to milk the cows in the barn and the parents working in well-tilled fields. And while organic food does have its virtues […]

Michael Blood of the Associated Press reports on Republican hopes for Latino voters in 2008 even despite the Republican Party’s spectacular mishandling of the immigration issue. I’m quoted in the article:
Democratic pollster Andre Pineda, who is advising New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s presidential campaign, conducted research after the November 2006 elections that identified a generational […]

Seems like just yesterday I was making my way from Westwood to Berkeley to visit my dear friend Susan Antón and attend the UCLA-Cal football game. But that was actually 1982. Karl Dorrell was a freshman wide receiver for the Bruins, not the head coach. And Susan is today thinking about weightier matters as reported […]

Guillermo Martínez opines in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel about the impact of the Cuban vote in the 2008 election. In the process, he makes the point that the Hispanic vote in Florida is far from monolithic:
Cuban Americans are no longer a majority of the Hispanic vote in the state of Florida. Of the estimated one […]