Stan Greenberg

Stanley Bernard Greenberg (born May 10, 1945) is a leading Democratic pollster and political strategist who has advised the campaigns of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and John Kerry, as well as hundreds of other candidates and organizations in the United States and around the world, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

A political scientist who received his Bachelor's Degree from Miami University and his Ph.D. from Harvard, Greenberg spent a decade teaching at Yale University before becoming a political consultant. His 1985 study of Reagan Democrats in Macomb County, Michigan became a classic of progressive political strategy, and the basis for his continuing argument that Democrats must actively work to present themselves as populists advocating the expansion of opportunity for the middle class. As the pollster for Clinton in 1992, Greenberg was a major figure in the famed campaign "war room" (and hence the documentary film of the same name).

He is the CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, a polling and consulting firm, and co-founder (with James Carville and Bob Shrum) of Democracy Corps, a non-profit organization which produces left-leaning political strategy. He is married to Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, who currently represents Connecticut's 3rd congressional district.

Greenberg's current and former corporate clients include British Petroleum, British Airways, Monsanto Company and General Motors. ^[1] In 2009, allegations surfaced that Congresswoman DeLauro had a conflict of interest in proposing HR 875, a food safety regulation bill, because her husband worked for Monsanto.^[2] According to a spokesman for Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and to DeLauro's office, Greenberg has not worked with Monsanto in over a decade.^[3]

Books

• Politics and Poverty: Modernization and Response in Five Poor Neighborhoods (1974)
• Race and State in Capitalist Development: South Africa in Comparative Perspective (1980).
• Legitimating the Illegitimate: State, Markets, and Resistance in South Africa (1987)
• Middle Class Dreams: The Politics and Power of the New American Majority (1995)
• The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It (2004) ISBN 0-312-31838-3
• Dispatches From The War Room: In The Trenches With Five Extraordinary Leaders (2009) ISBN 0-312-35152-6

References

External links

• Bio page at GQR
• Democracy Corps