Renowned pollster John Zogby, widely considered a “maverick predictor” for his ability to pinpoint election results with dead-on accuracy, will speak at the Nott Memorial on Monday, Feb. 27, at 7:30 p.m. as part of Perspectives at the Nott. He will talk on “The Political Landscape in 2006: The U.S. and the World.”
Earler in the day, at noon, he will speak as part of the Pizza and Politics series in Social Sciences Room 103.
Zogby is the president and CEO of Zogby International, an opinion and marketing research organization based in Utica, with offices in Washington, D.C. The firm's pollsters work with psychologists, sociologists, computer experts, linguists, political scientists, economists and mathematicians to “explore every nuance in language and test new methods in public opinion research.”
Zogby conducts political and opinion polling for clients such as Reuters News Agency, NBC News, the New York Post, Fox News, Gannett News Service, the Albany Times Union and other newspapers in New York state and around the country. Since 1984, the firm has been tracking public opinion around the globe – working in 62 countries, at last count.
In November 1996, Zogby made headlines by being the only pollster to accurately call the U.S. presidential election.
John Zogby has been praised as the “the most accurate pollster” (Seattle Post Intelligencer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, USA Today), and “the pace setter in the polling business” (New York Post).
He regularly appears on all three nightly network news programs plus NBC's “Today Show,” ABC's “Good Morning America” and is a frequent guest for Fox News and MSNBC special programs, along with CNBC's “Hardball with Chris Matthews.” He also is a regular political commentator for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Zogby holds degrees in history from Le Moyne College and Syracuse University. A frequent lecturer and panelist, he is listed with Leading Authorities, a top speakers' bureau in Washington, D.C., and the National Speakers' Bureau, in Chicago.
He has polled, researched and consulted for a wide spectrum of business media, government, and political groups including Microsoft, CISCO Systems, Philip Morris, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, MCI, Reuters America and the United States Census Bureau.