James Lewis Ranchino, known as Jim Ranchino, was a pollster, political consultant, and political scientist on the faculty of Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
17 Facts About Jim Ranchino
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Jim Ranchino died of a massive heart attack while awaiting to appear on Little Rock ABC television station KATV on the night of the 1978 general election.
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Jim Ranchino's siblings were three sisters, Alma Joy Hise of Kansas City, Missouri, Mariann Hunt of Des Moines, Iowa, and Cheryl Ranchino Trench, a newspaper columnist in Herrin, and one brother, John Edward Ranchino, who died in infancy.
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Jim Ranchino received a Bachelor of Arts from Louisiana College in 1961.
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Jim Ranchino studied graduate political science, and history under the historian William Appleman Williams, during his time at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where he was from 1963 to 1965.
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Jim Ranchino was the director of the OBU Volunteers in Service to America program, the first of its kind established in 1968 in Arkansas.
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Jim Ranchino could foresee the art of polling as early as 1970.
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Jim Ranchino became governor of Arkansas and later President of the United States.
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Jim Ranchino estimated the 1970 Arkansas electorate as 150,000 conservatives, 150,000 liberals, and 300,000 moderates.
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In 1976, Ranchino attributed the Democratic presidential nomination of former Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia to Carter's young pollster, Patrick Caddell, who advised the candidate to accent the "trust factor," rather than highlighting various temporary campaign issues.
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Jim Ranchino wrote that many in Arkansas had by the late 1970s already been viewing the decline of family values with growing anxiety.
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Jim Ranchino had done election commentary for KATV since 1972.
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Jim Ranchino leased a private plane to take him out of state as soon as his assignment for KATV had been completed.
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Jim Ranchino had worked as a pollster on a campaign and wanted to be there for the final counting of the votes.
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Jim Ranchino is interred at Rest Haven Memorial Gardens in Arkadelphia.
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Veda Jim Ranchino Morgan still operates Jim Ranchino Research, Inc She was a donor to Hillary Clinton in the latter's 2008 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination against Barack Obama.