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 Nicole McCleskey is a Partner with Public Opinion Strategies, a leading national political, public affairs, and trial consulting research firm. Since joining the firm in 1998, Nicole has directed the research for hundreds of individual projects covering a wide spectrum of opinion research of both a quantitative and qualitative nature.
Based in Albuquerque, NM, Nicole has increasingly focused her attention on Western politics and issues. In the 2006 elections, Nicole polled on behalf of the effort to re-elect Jon Kyl to the U.S. Senate, directed the research for the National Association of Realtors' multi-million dollar in vestment in campaigns around the country, and was the lead pollster for the Republican State Leadership Committee. In the 2002 and 2004 cycles, Nicole polled in a number of competitive open-seat congressional races and for numerous successful state legislative candidates.
Nicole's public affairs experience includes crisis management, strategic planning, and media testing for such companies as Wal-Mart, the American Beverage Association, the National Association of Realtors, Pfizer Incorporated, and numerous other companies and associations. Her work on corporate projects ranges from "dial" group ad testing and one-on-one interviews to national studies.
Nicole also heads Public Opinion Strategies' trial consulting division, offering a range of services to the legal community, including focus groups, mock trials, community attitude surveys, and post-trial interviews.
She received a B.A. in Government from Claremont McKenna College, and M.A. degrees from the University of Southern California and George Washington University.
Nicole is originally from Oakland, California, and now resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her family.
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