1. John J Zogby was born on September 3,1948 and is an American public opinion pollster, author, and public speaker.
26 Facts About John Zogby
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John Zogby is founder of the Zogby poll, and the Zogby International poll.
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John Zogby was born on September 3,1948, and grew up in Utica, New York, where he still lives.
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John Zogby's father, Joseph Rachid Zogby, was an immigrant from Lebanon who ran a successful Utica grocery store with his brothers.
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John Zogby completed all coursework and exams for a doctorate in history at Syracuse in 1974.
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In 1981, before his polling career began, John Zogby ran for mayor of Utica, New York.
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John Zogby launched his first polling company, John Zogby Associates, in 1984, conducting mainly local polls for candidates, parties, and the media in northeastern US communities through the 1980s.
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John Zogby tells the story of being part of a broad layoff at an Arab-American anti-discrimination group, and launching his polling firm immediately thereafter because so many of the Arab Americans he had worked with needed him and were ready to hire him.
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John Zogby correctly called the winner, George Pataki, the only pollster to do so.
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John Zogby achieved the same level of accuracy with his polling in the following two presidential elections.
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John Zogby is the author of four books: Beyond the Horse Race: How to Read Polls and Why We Should, as well as The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream, and the First Globals: Understanding, Managing, and Unleashing Our Millennial Generation.
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The result is what John Zogby describes as a bottom-up approach to segmentation analysis.
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John Zogby wrote the foreword to John Kenneth White's book The Values Divide: American Politics and Culture in Transition.
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John Zogby contributes regularly to The Guardian, and is a founding contributor to The Huffington Post.
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John Zogby has three honorary doctorates, from the State University of New York and the graduate school of Union University in 2005, and from the College of St Rose in 2009, along with Jimmy Fallon.
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John Zogby has received awards from the American Task Force for Lebanon.
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John Zogby has been named a New York State "Living Legend" by the Oneida County Historical Association, and has his name on the Mohawk Valley Welcome Center's Walk of Fame.
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John Zogby was a former advisor at the Belfer Center of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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John Zogby was a fellow of the Catholic University of America Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies.
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John Zogby served on the advisory council for biotechnology for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, as a Commissioner on the CSIS Commission on Smart Power, for three years on its board of trustees, with board chair David Abshire, the CSIS founding chairman.
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John Zogby previously served on the congressionally created Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World.
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John Zogby is the former chairman of the educational organization Sudan Sunrise.
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John Zogby served on the boards of the Arab American Institute, and Upstate Venture Connect.
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John Zogby's polls have been referenced in popular culture, including NBC's The West Wing, CW's Gossip Girl, the Netflix series House of Cards, Richard North Patterson's novel The Race, the Simpsons, game shows such as the UK's Cash Cab, and the 25th Anniversary edition of Trivial Pursuit.
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John Zogby Polls have been cited on The Tonight Show and parodied on The Late Show and NPR's All Things Considered.
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John Zogby's wife Kathleen is a retired special education teacher and children's book author, Nonnie's Lessons of Love, Hope, and Nature.