COMING NYAAPOR JOINT EVENT

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The 2009 Elections: What's at Stake for Obama?

Date and Time:

Wednesday October 14, 2009
Reception: 5:00 PM
Presentation: 6:00 PM
Location: Bowl 16, Robertson Hall
Princeton University

Look for live webcast link an hour before start of presentation.

Contact: Survey Research Center, Princeton University
169 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08540
Phone: 609-258-5660 Fax: 609-258-0549

Panelists:

Patrick Murray, Director, Monmouth University Polling Institute

Cliff Zukin, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Eagleton Institute of Politics and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy

Edward Freeland, Director, Survey Research Center, Princeton University

Moderator:
Naila Rahman, Assistant Director, Survey Research Center, Princeton University

Co-sponsors: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, The New York and New Jersey chapters of the American Association for Public Opinion Research

This event is free

Bios:

Patrick Murray is the founding director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. Murray’s prior experience was with the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll and the Bloustein Center for Survey Research. In addition to political and issue polling, he has directed numerous assessments for public agencies, image and message testing studies, and regional service evaluations.

Cliff Zukin is a professor of public policy and political science at the Eagleton Institute of Politics and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. He is a national expert on opinion polling, mass media and American politics, and often provides election night exit poll analysis for network television. Zukin is a co-author of A New Engagement: Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen (2006). Zukin also is a senior research fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, where he co-directs the acclaimed Work Trends survey series. The most recent survey, “The Anxious American Worker: Jobs, the Economy and a Call for Help,” received international attention. Cliff Zukin was president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research in 2005-06 and worked for NBC news in the 2004 election and more recently for Edison/Mitofsky Research, who conducted the 2008 national exit polls.

Edward Freeland is the Director of the Princeton University Survey Research Center and a Lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Dr. Freeland manages day-to-day operations at the SRC, teaches a graduate course in Survey Research Methods, and advises faculty and students who are conducting survey research projects. Before coming to Princeton, Dr. Freeland was a Senior Research Director in the Social and Policy Research group at Response Analysis in Princeton, NJ, where he was responsible for developing new projects in the areas of social welfare and health policy. Dr. Freeland received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 1992. He currently serves as president of the New Jersey chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.

Naila Rahman is the Assistant Director of Princeton Survey Research Center. She manages the web survey facility of the center. Naila works collaboratively with faculty, students and administrators who want to design and implement research projects based on interviews conducted by telephone, mail or over the Internet.

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