(May 19, 1950-February 16, 2019)
Born in Rock Hill, South Carolina
Pollster and consultant
Founded Cambridge Survey Research
Advised the presidential campaigns of George McGovern (1972), Jimmy Carter (1976,1980), Gary Hart (1984), Joe Biden (1988) and Jerry Brown (1992)

He had a reputation for being hard to work with.
He was a marketing consultant for the disastrous New Coke.
He called environmentalism ‘a conspiracy to basically deconstruct capitalism.’
The Fox News Channel frequently had him as a guest to ‘balance’ a right-wing commentator even though he had broken with the Democratic Party in the 1990s and loathed the Clintons at least as much as Sean Hannity does.
He found participants for the anti-Obama documentary ‘The Hope and the Change.’
Ann Coulter called him one of the only two ‘liberals’ that she respected. (The other being Zell Miller.)

As a high school student in Florida, he correctly predicted the results of several local races as part of a mathematics project.
Carter credited him as one of the three advisors responsible for his winning the White House.
He was a consultant for ‘Air Force One,’ ‘In the Line of Fire,’ and The West Wing.

Credit: C. Fishel

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