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  John Zogby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Zogby (born 1948) is a noted American political pollster and first senior fellow at The Catholic University of America's Life Cycle Institute.
Zogby is a graduate of Le Moyne College and Syracuse University.
Zogby's brother is James "Jim" Zogby, founder of the influential Arab American Institute.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Zogby   (403 words)

  
 John Zogby - Leading Authorities Speakers Bureau
John Zogby, President and CEO of Zogby International, remains by all accounts the hottest pollster in the United States today.
Zogby International instead was the first to observe the gap closing significantly between Bush and Vice-President Al Gore in the waning hours of the election.
Zogby was the first pollster I heard being cited on TV as finding that Gore was pulling out slightly, by 2 percent, ahead of Mr.
www.leadingauthorities.com /8561/John_Zogby.htm   (716 words)

  
 The Raw Story | Video: Pollster Zogby '95 percent' sure of 650,000 Iraqi death toll
Expert pollster John Zogby is "95 percent certain" that around 650,000 Iraqis civilians have died since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
JOHN ZOGBY, ZOGBY INTERNATIONAL: The methodology of the survey, I think, from what I've seen so far is quite good, following all the rules of random sampling to a degree that it's possible in a country like Iraq, and cluster sampling.
ZOGBY: And CNN, and my company are others are able to call U.S. elections and European elections with pinpoint precision using a sample of a thousand; 1,800-plus sample in a country like Iraq is more than enough to do the job and to get the ballpark figure that they got here.
www.rawstory.com /news/2006/Video_Expert_Zogby_95_sure_of_1011.html   (888 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Election 2004: Polls
John Zogby: Fundamentally as we enter into the Iowa and New Hampshire cycle I think the race is not necessarily over on the Democratic side, although Dean is the prohibitive favorite.
John Zogby: That is a good question and it is too early to determine voter turnout.
John Zogby: It will heighten turnout but remember that while the Presidential race was pretty much a tie, those who voted for the House in 2000 were a 48/48 percent split.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A56553-2004Jan5?language=printer   (2279 words)

  
 Simon World :: John Zogby on the US Election
Zogby was very clear that once they move out of a camp, a voter then tosses up between not voting or voting for "their" candidate.
Zogby notes the Sept 20th speech to Congress and the incident when Bush was talking to a group of iron workers, police and firefighters at Ground Zero (when some called out "We can't hear you", Bush responded "I can hear you.
Zogby sees them going like in Reagan in 1980, so that the margin is 2% but it is the same in each key state and it is in favour of Kerry, thus the Electoral Vote ends in a decisive victory.
simonworld.mu.nu /archives/050971.php   (4405 words)

  
 TAP: Vol 14, Iss. 1. John Zogby's Creative Polls. Chris Mooney.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Zogby also polled for New York's millionaire independent gubernatorial candidate Tom Golisano, declaring in late October, "I'm ready to mortgage my house and predict that Golisano comes in at least second, barring anything unforeseen." Golisano came in third with 14 percent of the vote.
Zogby had forecast an 8.1 percent Clinton margin, and the actual margin was 8.4 percent.
In part, Zogby is just testing messages for interest groups, which he reasonably calls a "legitimately defined methodology." But Zogby is also trading on his reputation as a legitimate, media-certified pollster to help groups disseminate inflated claims about public opinion based on inventive wording.
www.prospect.org /print/V14/1/mooney-c.html   (3533 words)

  
 USNews.com: Spotlight on pollster John Zogby
Zogby's breakthrough came in 1994, when he was polling for a group of upstate radio stations and the New York Post.
Zogby says there is no political difference between people with listed and unlisted phones, and his interviewers call only listed numbers.
"Zogby is not a reputable pollster," opines Warren Mitofsky, head of Mitofsky International, one of the two firms conducting 2004 exit polls for the broadcast and cable news networks.
www.usnews.com /usnews/biztech/articles/040216/16eezogby.htm   (578 words)

  
 Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE . TV Program | PBS
ZOGBY: This is the investor next door, and basically that includes people who are in unions, it includes people who make modest sums of income, and includes you and me, my neighbor behind the curtains next door and across the street.
ZOGBY: Folks that we followed up with told us that they either changed their definition of what it meant to be a member of the investor class, which meant they couldn't focus on the future anymore, they had to focus on the present.
ZOGBY: The group we call the investor class, those are people who say "I'm a member of the investor class," regardless of their income level, the size of their portfolio, whether they're minorities, whether or not they belong to a union.
www.pbs.org /wsw/tvprogram/zogbyfullinterview.html   (1707 words)

  
 John Zogby -shyster pollster & James Zogby - head of the American Arab Institute - propagandists for the Saudi -Wahabi ...
Brothers John and James Zogby, the head of the polling organisation and a the Arab American Institute, are two examples of how slick packaging and public relations are enabling them to push their pro Wahabi and anti American agenda as a and manipulate American public and political opinion.
Zogby's lovefest with Wahabists begs the question as to what financial and business 'perks' both he and his brother John are enjoying as a result of their dhimmitude.One answer mounts to a gift of $300,000 dollars by Saudi Prince Alaweed ibn Talal to James Zogby's Arab American Institute,which is listed a non profit organisation.
John Zogby is the brother of James Zogby, president of the Arab-American Institute and formerly executive director of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee.
www.militantislammonitor.org /article/id/304   (5446 words)

  
 Pollster John Zogby Becomes “The Polltakers’ Poster Boy”
Zogby already had been in the polling business for several years when his results in 1994 New York elections confounded his competitors but proved to be right in the end.
John Zogby, a newcomer to presidential polling, projected Clinton would win 49 percent of the vote to Bob Dole’s 41 percent, Ross Perot’s 8 percent, and 2 percent for others.
Zogby, whose brother, James Zogby, is president of the Arab American Institute in Washington DC, was on the staff of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), also in Washington DC, before he returned to New York to open his polling company years ago.
www.washington-report.org /backissues/0397/9703008b.htm   (924 words)

  
 The American Thinker
It is, after all, an inexact science,” and all pollsters tell you that their forecast must be considered in light of a particular poll’s margin of error associated with the poll’s sample size, usually 3 to 4%.
Zogby has been arguing all year that undecided voters will break against the incumbent in the end, and so Kerry has a few poll points in his reserve tank that might give him the win.
Zogby is spinning for the DNC at the moment, not just reporting what his polls may show, even if they are conducted fairly.
www.americanthinker.com /articles.php?article_id=3975   (1343 words)

  
 School of Communication - University of Miami   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Zogby, president of Zogby International and a top pollster for the political scene, spoke at the March 29 Communication Week session, “Polls and Predictions with John Zogby,” which took place at 10 a.m.
Zogby discussed the strengths and weaknesses of the major political parties for the upcoming election.
John Zogby is a legend in the polling industry,” said Will Dillard, a graduate broadcast journalism student.
com.miami.edu /events/zogby.htm   (398 words)

  
 Catholic University Appoints Pollster John Zogby as Senior Fellow
Zogby, who is president and CEO of Zogby International, will deliver lectures, sponsor events and assist the institute in pursuing major grants, says Stephen Schneck, institute director and chair of CUA’s Department of Politics.
Zogby International polls in 65 nations around the globe, and is on the cutting edge of new, proven survey technology, including interactive online polling.
In the past, Zogby has worked closely with CUA Professor of Politics John Kenneth White, also an institute fellow, who has written extensively about presidential elections, the impact of values on the American electorate and the American political party system.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/9/prweb431148.htm   (720 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Live Online -- OnPolitics "Free Media"
John Zogby, President and CEO of Zogby International and nationally known pollster, will be online to talk about the jump in approval numbers for New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and President Bush during this time of crisis.
You saw John F. Kennedy's numbers rise during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Carter's rise in the immediate aftermath of the Iranian crisis and, of course, the president's father's numbers during Operation Desert Storm rose.
John Zogby: I would like to invite people to our web site tomorrow (www.zogby.com) and urge you to suggest future polling questions.
discuss.washingtonpost.com /zforum/01/freemedia_zogby0916.htm   (1277 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Featured Article
This stunning realignment is possible by virtue of a new class of American voters--the self-identified "investor class"--which is itself a coalition across a broad spectrum of demographic groups.
Zogby International's post-election polling reveals fascinating differences between those voters who call themselves members of the "investor class" and those who do not see themselves this way.
Zogby is president and CEO of Zogby International, an independent polling company in Utica, N.Y., and Washington.
www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110006425   (865 words)

  
 How I Did It: John Zogby
John Zogby backed into his career as a pollster, and for a time had to cede the national spotlight to bigger names.
In 1981, John Zogby, a 33-year-old history professor and founder of the Utica Citizen's Lobby, decided to add another credential to his resume: mayor of Utica, N.Y. Then a curious thing happened: He lost, but he knew beforehand how much he would lose by.
Zogby International is currently polling the 2004 presidential race for NBC News and Reuters and conducting statewide and national polls for the Miami Herald, the Toledo Blade, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
www.inc.com /magazine/20040601/howididit.html   (1044 words)

  
 BBSNews - Zogby: Wal-Mart Voters Could Decide this Election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Zogby via BBSNews 2006-10-10 -- The Mark Foley scene roiling Washington these days is just the latest twist of theatrics in a political melodrama that we otherwise know as the 2006 midterm election season.
Polling by Zogby International this summer and fall shows this undecided audience, having sat through ugly plot twists involving Foley, William Jefferson, Bob Ney and Jack Abramoff, and others, may be disgusted with the program.
Pollster John Zogby: A parallel to the problems Republicans are facing this year is when I see low support for Democrats among African American voters, they face the same problem in reverse - and there are some races where you are seeing that here.
bbsnews.net /article.php/20061010014701894   (1013 words)

  
 US Election: Democracy in Question
Zogby was concerned about the difference between some of the exit polls (surveys of individuals who have just cast ballots) and the official vote counts.
Zogby, whose firm was not among those that provided network TV coverage of the Nov. 2 election, described the possibility of either incompetence or fraud causing the controversial deviation as "impossible."
According to Zogby, it would have required "wrong sampling in wrong areas throughout the country," or the purposeful manipulation of data to obtain exit poll results so significantly different from the official totals.
www.commondreams.org /headlines04/1118-11.htm   (1358 words)

  
 The American Enterprise: John Zogby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
John Zogby vaulted onto the national scene with his dead-on prediction of final vote totals in the 1996 Presidential election.
Zogby International’s unglamorous offices are located in a low-slung yellow-brick building next to a bowling alley that offers “extreme bowling” with fllights and glow-in-the-dark balls.
Zogby: Real Americans spend their days doing pretty much what they’re supposed to be doing: putting food on the table, getting to work, making sure the kids are in school on time.
www.taemag.com /issues/articleID.15326/article_detail.asp   (3341 words)

  
 R.E.M. Fan Forums - John Zogby predicts Kerry win ...and
IN MR John Zogby's mind, there's little question that the electorate in the United States is divided into what he calls 'two warring nations' - one favouring President George W. Bush in the upcoming Nov 2 presidential election, the other siding with his Democratic challenger, Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts.
What Mr Zogby thinks of the American Republic's predicament matters - not just because he is widely considered to be one of the country's most accurate pollsters, but also because he has studied and taught history and the culture of societies.
Of Arab descent, Mr Zogby is especially interested in Middle East issues, and is currently undertaking a series of polls in Iraq about issues such as the viability of establishing a genuinely democratic state there.
www.myrem.com /showthread.php?t=12246   (2277 words)

  
 John Zogby | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Zogby argues that voters are not so tired of Republican control of Congress that they will vote the party out regardless of the Democratic message.
Zogby, who has polled for candidates of both parties and a variety of news organizations including Fox and NBC News says the president will not get a significant political boost from the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Zogby argued that, for liberal voters, global warming is as energizing a moral issue as the gay marriage ban is for conservatives.
www.csmonitor.com /2006/0612/p25s01-usmb.html   (784 words)

  
 Radio Blogger
Now John McIntyre, I sat down with the Congressmen, yesterday, half dozen Congressmen, and gave them my dire warning, my assessment that it could be '94 in reverse.
I mean, my observation of John McCain, and I understand he's very popular with a lot of people in the United States.
And that basically, John McCain is very good at talking himself into believing that whatever position he adopts is, by virtue of the fact that he's adopted it, the sensible, sane position.
www.radioblogger.com /archives/march06.html   (10033 words)

  
 Democracy Project: Democracy Project
However, Zogby’s poll purposely leaves open too many questions, which combined with the performance and nature of the Zogby polling organization, raises many doubts as to the poll’s reliability.
Zogby’s response to the question as to “what advice he would offer data consumers who find this all puzzling.
Low and behold, the Zogby poll is described as being run by BOTH of them, not just by the pollster, and the discussion of it on TV has involved both of them - John talking about the poll itself, then a quick tag to James who rails against U.S. foreign policy...
www.democracy-project.com /archives/002387.html   (824 words)

  
 John Zogby, the first to predict “The race is Kerry’s to lose,” tells Wall $treet Week....   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
John Zogby, the first to predict “The race is Kerry’s to lose,” tells Wall $treet Week....
John Zogby, the first to predict “The race is Kerry’s to lose,” tells Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE viewers that investors are moving in Bush”s direction to Kerry’s peril.
Pollster John Zogby, who took part in a recent government study of Muslim opinion toward the U.S. around the world, sees a parallel between the Bush administration's arrogant approach to the Muslim world and its isolation of Arab-Americans.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1208081/posts   (1925 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Zogby: Kerry will win
Pollster John Zogby has predicted John Kerry will win the presidential election in November.
Among those citing the war in Iraq, Zogby points out, Kerry's lead is 57 to 36 percent.
Concluded Zogby: " We are unlikely to see any big bumps for either candidate because opinion is so polarized and, I believe, frozen in place.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38424   (434 words)

  
 News Releases - CUA Office of Public Affairs
John Zogby as its first senior fellow, effective Sept. 1, 2006.
Zogby International, will deliver lectures, sponsor events and assist the institute in pursuing major grants, says Stephen Schneck, institute director and chair of CUA’s Department of Politics.
“John’s presence reflects well on the emerging prominence of the institute and serves as a boon to us in many practical regards.
publicaffairs.cua.edu /news/07Zogby_Appointment_LCIFellow.htm   (502 words)

  
 uticaOD.com :: The meeting place and marketplace of the Mohawk Valley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Utica pollster John Zogby said polling results indicate Sen. John Kerry will defeat President Bush in today's election.
Zogby expects a very large turnout among young voters, with at least 55 percent voting in today's election.
Among voters ages 18 to 29, polls indicate that 0 percent are undecided, Zogby said.
www.uticaod.com /archive/2004/11/02/news/11564.html   (108 words)

  
 Most Americans Support Aggresive Stem Cell Research, Says New Nationwide Poll
Vice President for Biotechnology Ward Casscells and Zogby International CEO John Zogby talk with Scott Lillibridge, director of the Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Preparedness, after a briefing on the first UT Health Science Center at Houston/Zogby poll.
Despite recent research to the contrary, nearly 40 percent do not believe infections such as influenza (flu) can trigger heart attacks, stroke or sudden death; and, people are almost evenly split on whether they plan to get a flu shot this year.
Zogby International President and CEO John Zogby, in Houston to review poll results with TMC officials and the news media, said his firm establishes bilateral relationships with leading universities to more thoroughly investigate important topics.
publicaffairs.uth.tmc.edu /Media/newsreleases/nr2004/zogby.html   (558 words)

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