2024 Election Watch
Post Democratic National Convention
with
Brenda Gianiny
Pollster for Fmr. Congresswoman Liz Cheney and Senator Mitch McConnell
AND
Doug Schoen
Pollster for Fmr. President Bill Clinton and Fmr. Mayor Mike Bloomberg
Wednesday, August 28, 5:00 - 6pm ET, On Zoom
Following the second convention of this pivotal election year, The Common Good hosts two of the most prominent pollster-political strategists to gauge possible terrain gained or lost in the process of finalizing the nomination of the Democratic Party nominee, Kamala Harris. They will check voter sentiment and the pressing issues driving the ballot in November. Listen in and bring your questions to Republican pollster-/ strategist Brenda Gianiny and Democratic pollster / strategist Doug Schoen.
Both of our guest speakers have played pivotal roles in a number of successful campaigns at the highest levels of office. Covering everything from where key battleground states are leaning, the weaknesses of either party’s ticket, to abortion and immigration, Gianiny and Schoen will offer their expert insight into the 2024 election landscape.
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ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS
Axis Research’s founding principal, Brenda Gianiny, is a nationally recognized expert in the field of public opinion research with over two decades of experience honed at the highest levels of corporate America and Republican political campaigns. Using her background, experience and degree in mathematics, Brenda has worked with a wide range of both political and corporate clients to help them achieve success.
Known for maintaining strict client and data confidentiality, Brenda has worked with campaigns ranging from presidential and the US Senate, including serving as the primary pollster for the Bush-Cheney `04 re-election campaign and pollster to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, to local races for state legislative office and mayor. Brenda also has over twenty years of experience in public policy direction and corporate market insight helping companies like Walmart, Anheuser-Busch and ExxonMobil chart success. Whether it’s a local ballot initiative or campaigning for the highest office in the land, Brenda brings the same motivation and enthusiasm to each fight – helping clients win.
In the last election cycle (2022), Brenda worked with campaigns as diverse as Senate Minority Whip John Thune to out-going Congresswoman Liz Cheney. By becoming an integrated member of these teams, and not “just another vendor” providing numbers and charts, Brenda “provides the research and insight to support the highest-level decisions.” The result is a data-driven strategy to help reach goals and maximize results.
Brenda has also served as a guest lecturer at American University, The University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Northwestern University, and The Campaign School at Yale University.
Douglas E. Schoen has been “one of the most influential Democratic campaign consultants” for more than 40 years. A founding partner and principal strategist for Penn, Schoen & Berland, he is widely recognized as one of the co-inventors of overnight polling.
Schoen was named Pollster of the Year in 1996 by the American Association of Political Consultants for his contributions to the President Bill Clinton reelection campaign.
His political clients include New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Indiana Governor Evan Bayh, and his corporate clients include AOL Time Warner, Procter & Gamble and AT&T. Internationally, he has worked for the heads of states of over 15 countries, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and three Israeli Prime Ministers.
He is the author of multiple books, most recently publishing, The Power of the Vote: Electing Presidents, Overthrowing Dictators, and Promoting Democracy Around the World in 2007, Declaring Independence: The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System in 2008, The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America and What Makes You Tick? How Successful People Do It – and What You can Learn from Them in 2009, and The Political Fix: Changing the Game of American Democracy, from the Grassroots to the White House in 2010. He is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and various other newspaper and online publications. He is also a Fox News Contributor, making appearances on various news programs several times a week.
Schoen graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, and holds a degree from Harvard Law School as well as a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University. He has lectured at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
