Bio
Neil Newhouse
Neil Newhouse is a partner and co-founder of Public Opinion Strategies, a national political and public affairs research firm which has been described by the New York Times as the leading Republican polling company in the country, and was named Pollster of the Year by the trade publication Campaigns and Elections for its work in the 2002 election cycle.
Margie Omero
Margie Omero is President and founder of Momentum Analysis, LLC, a Democratic public opinion research firm based in Washington, DC. The firm founded in 2001, counts among its clients the DNC, the DCCC, EMILY's List, Members of Congress, non-profits and labor unions, and campaigns around the country from City Council to US Senate. She is an award-winning pollster, recently named one of "50 Politicos To Watch" by Politico, and a "Mover and Shaker" by Politics Magazine.
Omero, a Women's Media Center/SheSource expert, frequently comments on political trends, and appears regularly on television, radio, and print. Her work as a pollster.com/Huffington Post blogger has appeared on "Hardball", in ABC's "The Note", The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and in Salon.com. She is also a regular contributor to Politico's "The Arena". She is the author of a chapter on women and voting in the three-volume series "Voting in America" and a chapter on the gender gap in statewide races in the academic text "Voting the Gender Gap," both published in 2008.