Mark Blumenthal Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Clients include: YouGov (2020- ) – contractor for questionnaire design and analysis of Yahoo News/YouGov poll, contribute articles to YouGov.com; Data for Progress (2022) – consult on questionnaire design; Survey160 (2019-2020) – consult on sales and marketing; Bellwether (2021-2022) – consult on polling on education policy, design of polling dashboard.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Responsible for year-long national survey during the 2016 election, including two months of tracking of all 50 states, weekly analysis of national tracking of Trump approval throughout 2017 and 2018, tracking survey of the UK Election in 2017, polling on elections for U.S. Senate and Governor in 2017 and 2018.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Covered polling and political survey research for Huffington Post’s 34 million unique visitors per month. Managed Pollster section, involving migration and ongoing redesign of Pollster.com. Directed creation of the HuffPost/YouGov online poll and the Pollster API.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Co-creator of nationally recognized website that published and aggregated poll results in a uniquely interactive, graphical format and provided a daily running commentary on political polling.
• Attracted over 27 million visits and over 86 million page views before being acquired by The Huffington Post in 2010.
• Named one of Time’s 50 Best Websites for 2009

Authored more than one hundred columns on surveys and poll methodology for NationalJournal.com.

Elected member of Executive Council of the leading association of public opinion and survey research professionals. Served as Chair of Communications Committee, 2007-2008Associate Chair, Communications Committee, 2006-2007

Communications strategist and survey analyst for political and corporate clients. Partner, 1995-2006Vice President, Bennett, Petts & Associates, 1991-1994.

Responsible for written analysis, questionnaire design, statistical analysis design, and project management for political and institutional clients.

As Michigan Field Coordinator, August 1983 to March 1984, Directed statewide field organization. Recruited Local coordinators. Supervised scheduling, literature design, grass roots fundraising and delegate selection. Managed $50,000 field budget. As National Field Staff, February to June 1984, had assignments in Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio and California.

Ba, Political Science

Education record

Coursework Toward An Ma, Survey Methodology (Jpsm)