Robert Autry (VA)
Rob Autry is a Partner of Public Opinion Strategies, a national political and public affairs survey research firm whose clients include leading political figures, Fortune 500 companies and major associations. Rob serves as a pollster and political strategist for numerous mayors, state legislators, statewide officeholders, and Members of Congress, including the former Republican House Majority Leader.

In the 2006 elections, Rob was the pollster for two open seat Republican Congressional victories – Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (MN-6) and Congressman David Davis (TN-1). Rob also polled for independent expenditure efforts in over a dozen swing Congressional Districts on behalf of the Republican National Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Glen Bolger (VA)
Glen Bolger is one of the Republican Party's leading political strategists and pollsters. He is a partner and co-founder of Public Opinion Strategies, a national political and public affairs survey research firm whose clients include leading political figures, Fortune 500 companies, and major associations. Public Opinion Strategies has 18 U.S. Senators, eight governors, and more than 40 Members of Congress as clients.

Roll Call newspaper, a newspaper that covers Capitol Hill, noted Glen “has quickly emerged as the pollster of choice for House and Senate Republicans.”

Elizabeth Harrington (VA)
Since joining POS in 1998, the major focus of Elizabeth's work has been public affairs and public policy research, managing over 20 million dollars of both qualitative and quantitative research projects. Elizabeth's research experience extends to a variety of issues such as health care, Medicare, Medicaid, children's issues, crisis management, mergers & acquisitions, litigation/tort reform, corporate image research, media testing and public education campaigns.

Stephen M. Kinney (CA)
Stephen M. Kinney is a partner of Public Opinion Strategies, L.L.C., one of the nation's premier political and public affairs survey research firms. His institutional knowledge, critical insight, and expertise in survey analyses contribute to his reputation as a highly respected pollster and strategist on the current political and public affairs scene.

Since 1991, in his home state of California, Steve Kinney has asked survey questions relating to every statewide candidate election.  For many offices, such as Governor, Kinney has been involved on multiple occasions.  He has also polled for many of the most important and controversial ballot measures to appear on the ballot in California.  In legislative polling, Stephen Kinney has conducted research in 52 of the state's 80 assembly districts and 22 of the state's 40 senate districts. Whether on behalf of individual candidates, the Republican caucus, or independent organizations concerned with the outcome of the elections, Kinney has been involved in virtually every competitive state legislative race in the last decade.

Patrick Lanne (NY)
Patrick Lanne is a Partner at Public Opinion Strategies and is based in upstate New York.  Called by The New York Times, "the leading Republican polling company," Public Opinion Strategies currently represents seventeen U.S. Senators, eight Governors, and over 50 Members of Congress.

In the 2006 elections, Patrick polled for three winning statewide initiative campaigns, helped five legislative caucuses defend their majority and completed research for several successful state and local officials.  He polled for state party organizations in Indiana, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

Nicole McCleskey (NM)
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.

Bill McInturff (VA)
Bill McInturff is a partner and co-founder of Public Opinion Strategies, a national political and public affairs survey research firm. Since its founding in 1991, the firm has completed more than 5 million interviews with voters and consumers in all fifty states and over a dozen foreign countries, and conducted more than 3,500 focus groups. Called by The New York Times, "the leading Republican polling company," Public Opinion Strategies currently represents nineteen U.S. Senators, seven governors, and over 40 Members of Congress.

Bill is actively engaged in American politics, conducting national survey research on behalf of the Republican Governors Association. Most recently, Bill served as the lead pollster for John McCain 2008. Bill, along with Peter Hart of Peter D. Hart Research Associates also conducts The NBC News/The Wall Street Journal Poll.

Neil Newhouse (VA)
Neil Newhouse is a partner and co-founder of Public Opinion Strategies, a national political and public affairs survey research firm whose clients include leading political figures, Fortune 500 companies and major trade associations.

Public Opinion Strategies has been described by the New York Times as "the leading Republican polling company" in the country and the firm was named "Pollster of the Year" by the trade publication "Campaigns and Elections" for its work in the 2002 election cycle.

Gene Ulm (VA)
Gene Ulm is one of the Republican Party's leading political strategists and pollsters. Gene has extensive experience polling on behalf of successful U.S. Senate, gubernatorial, congressional and state legislative campaigns since 1990. His political clients include Members of Congress, mayors, legislative caucuses and business and trade-oriented independent expenditure committees.

In 2004, Gene was the pollster for huge campaign wins including Senator David Vitter of Louisiana, who made history by becoming the first Republican U.S. Senator from Louisiana in all while avoiding a run-off, and Governor Jim Douglas of Vermont, who held his opponent to fewer votes than George W. Bush in one of Kerry's best states (58.9%).

Lori Weigel (CO)
Lori Weigel is a Partner with Public Opinion Strategies, based in the firm’s Colorado office. Public Opinion Strategies' clients include over 50 Members of Congress, eight governors, 18 U.S. senators and numerous Fortune 500 companies. The firm also conducts corporate image, crisis management and public policy polling for numerous national associations and Fortune 500 companies, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, American Hospital Association, America’s Health Insurance Plans, and the National Association of Realtors.

In her 17 years as a pollster, Weigel has directed research efforts for hundreds of political and public affairs campaigns throughout the country, including twice assisting with efforts at the presidential level. She primarily focuses on polling for and against ballot measures. In 2008, she polled for two successful statewide ballot measures: the Clean Water and Legacy Amendment in Minnesota which is the largest conservation finance measure ever in the United States; and the continuation of the Clean Ohio fund, the largest economic generator in Ohio since its inception in 2000. She has polled on numerous other types of issues, including judicial reforms (Colorado), legal reforms (Nevada), stadiums (Denver Broncos and Arizona Cardinals), education reform, gaming, taxes, and labor issues.