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For his brother and president of the Arab American Institute, see James Zogby.
John J. Zogby
John Zogby
Born (1948-09-03) September 3, 1948 (age 76)
Utica, New York, U.S.
EducationLe Moyne College, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University
OccupationAuthor
OrganizationJohn Zogby Strategies
Political partyDemocratic
RelativesJames Zogby (brother)
Websitejohnzogbystrategies.com

John J. Zogby (born September 3, 1948) is an American public opinion pollster, author, and public speaker.[1] He is founder of the Zogby poll, the Zogby International poll, and he serves as a senior partner at John Zogby Strategies, a marketing and political consulting firm created in 2016 with two of his sons, Benjamin and Jeremy.[2][3]

In addition to serving on the advisory board of the Arab American Institute, he was on the advisory board of Upstate Venture Connect, and from 2016 to 2018, he was director of the Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship at Le Moyne College.[4]

The author of four books, his latest was published in the fall of 2024, Beyond the Horse Race: How to Read Polls and Why We Should.[5]

Early years and education

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John Zogby was born on September 3, 1948, and grew up in Utica, New York, where he still lives. He is the son of Lebanese Catholic immigrants. His brother, James Zogby, is the founder of the Arab American Institute.[6] He graduated from Notre Dame Junior Senior High School. Zogby received a bachelor's degree in history from Le Moyne College in 1970 and a master's degree in history from Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 1974.[7] He taught history and political science at Mohawk Valley Community College, he was its commencement speaker in 2011, and he later chaired its capital campaign.[8][9][10][11]

Career

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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.[12] In December 1991, polling for several radio and television stations in Upstate New York, he published a poll in New York State showing that then-President George H. W. Bush was leading the state's governor Mario Cuomo by 6 points in that state. Governor Cuomo decided to not enter the 1992 presidential race the next day.[13] By 1994, Zogby was polling the New York State gubernatorial race for the New York Post and WNYW-Fox 5. Zogby correctly called the winner, George Pataki, the only pollster to do so.[14] Zogby's company was hired by Reuters news agency to poll the 1996 presidential race.[15][16] “All hail Zogby, the maverick predictor,” wrote Richard Morin, polling director at The Washington Post, when John Zogby was the only pollster who called the 1996 presidential election with near precision.[17] Zogby achieved the same level of accuracy with his polling in the following two presidential elections.[18][19]

In 1981, Zogby ran for Mayor of Utica, New York.[20]

Advisory boards

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Zogby was a former advisor at the Belfer Center of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[21] He was also a fellow of the Catholic University of America Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies.[22] He served on the advisory council for Bio-Technology for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS),[23] and as a Commissioner on the Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Smart Power.[24] He previously served on the congressional-created Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World.[25]

Zogby is the former chairman of the educational organization Sudan Sunrise.[26] He served on the boards of the Arab American Institute[27] and Upstate Venture Connect.[28]

Books and publications

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He is the author of the new book Beyond the Horse Race: How to Read Polls and Why We Should (Rowman & Littlefield 2024), as well as The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream (Random House, 2008)[4] and is co-author of the First Globals: Understanding, Managing, and Unleashing Our Millennial Generation (with Joan Snyder Kuhl).[29] His previous book, published in 2016, is entitled We Are Many, We Are One: Neo-Tribes and Tribal Analytics in 21st Century America, emphasizes a new paradigm for moving beyond demographics by allowing people who participated in the survey research to define themselves based on their attributes and values.[30] The result is what Zogby describes as a bottom-up approach to segmentation analysis.

Awards

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In 2005, he was awarded Honorary Doctorate Degrees from the State University of New York.[31] In 2009, Zogby received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the College of St. Rose.[32] In 2008 he was awarded the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Award from the University of California Irvine.[33] He has also received awards from the American Task Force for Lebanon.[34] He was 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.[35][36]

Bibliography

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  • Zogby, John (2024). Beyond the Horse Race: How to Read Polls and Why We Should. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-9714-1.
  • Zogby, John (2016). We Are Many, We Are One: Neo-Tribes and Tribal Analytics In 21st Century America (First ed.). New York: John Zogby. ISBN 978-0-9913382-1-4.
  • Snyder-Kuhl, Joan; Zogby, John (2013). First Globals: Understanding, Managing, and Unleashing the Potential of Our Millennial Generation (First ed.). New York: John Zogby. ISBN 978-0-9913382-0-7.
  • Zogby, John (2008). The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream (First ed.). New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6450-2.
  • Zogby, John (2006). Iran versus America? (First ed.). Utica, NY: Zogby International. OCLC 71340360.
  • Zogby, John (2003). Public opinion and private accounts: measuring risk and confidence in rethinking social security (First ed.). Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute. OCLC 52641051.
  • Zogby, John (1990). Arab America Today: A Demographic Profile of Arab Americans (First ed.). Washington, D.C.: Arab American Institute. OCLC 24357334.

References

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  1. ^ "James Zogby". apbspeakers.com. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  2. ^ "Weekly Biden Report Card: Biden's epic failed week — with no good sign in sight". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
  3. ^ "Zogby and Sons Form New Consulting Firm". Mrweb.com. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  4. ^ a b "John Zogby '70 Named Director of Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship in the Madden School of Business at Le Moyne". www.lemoyne.edu. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  5. ^ Zogby, John (2024). Beyond the Horse Race: How to Read Polls and Why We Should (1 ed.). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-9714-1.
  6. ^ "James Zogby". Arab American Institute. 2021-03-31. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  7. ^ "Pollster Joins Maxwell School Panel to Explore Super Tuesday and Beyond". Maxwell School. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  8. ^ "Zogby chairs MVCC's 'Challenge and Opportunity' campaign | MVCC | Mohawk Valley Community College". www.mvcc.edu. 2010-12-15. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  9. ^ "Zogby provides leadership for 'Challenge and Opportunity'". 2010-11-08. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  10. ^ Dorsagno, Cheyenne (31 July 2016). "Zogby delves into our complex personalities - Utica native's project offers new perspective on Americans". Observer-Dispatch (Utica, NY). pp. F1.
  11. ^ "College Senate Meeting Minutes" (PDF). Mohawk Valley Community College: 2. 17 May 2011.
  12. ^ MOONEY, Chris (16 January 2003). "John Zogby's Creative Polls". The American Prospect. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  13. ^ Smith, Curt (November 2014). George H. W. Bush : Character at the Core. Potomac Books. p. 180. ISBN 978-1612346854. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  14. ^ "LULAC: The Battle for the Latino Vote". LULAC. Nov 29, 2006.
  15. ^ MacFarquhar, Larissa (18 October 2014). "The Pollster". The New Yorker. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  16. ^ "Who Will Win? Pollster John Zogby to Discuss 2008 Election". www.rochester.edu. April 16, 2008.
  17. ^ Richard, Morin (10 November 1996). The Washington Post.
  18. ^ Silver, Nate (2012-11-10). "Which Polls Fared Best (and Worst) in the 2012 Presidential Race". FiveThirtyEight.
  19. ^ "Interview: Zogby Talks about getting 2016 right – John Zogby Strategies". johnzogbystrategies.com. April 3, 2017.
  20. ^ "Zogby family business returns to Broad Street". Uticaod. 2014-04-08. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  21. ^ "Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs". www.belfercenter.org. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  22. ^ "IPR Senior Fellow: John Zogby". ipr.cua.edu. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  23. ^ "Center for Strategic and International Studies". www.csis.org. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  24. ^ Armitage, Richard L.; Nye, Joseph (2007). CSIS Commission on Smart Power : a smarter, more secure America. Washington, D.C.: CSIS Press. ISBN 978-0-89206-510-3.
  25. ^ Glassman, James (2003-10-03). "Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim World". AEI. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  26. ^ Zogby, John (11 July 2012). "Sudanese Activist Charged With Terrorism". On the Ground. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  27. ^ Zogby, James (2017-07-01). "Washington Watch: What an Italian American Leader Did for Arab Americans and for Me – Arab American Institute". www.aaiusa.org. Archived from the original on 2017-08-14. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  28. ^ "John Zogby | Upstate Venture Connect". Upstate Venture Connect. Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  29. ^ "FIRST GLOBALS BOOK". whymillennialsmatter.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  30. ^ "Books – John Zogby Strategies". johnzogbystrategies.com. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  31. ^ "SUNY HONORARY DEGREES AWARDED OR PENDING AWARD" (PDF). 2016-07-13. p. 15. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  32. ^ "JOHN ZOGBY PREDICTED IT: JIMMY FALLON GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE TODAY". Saint Rose News. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  33. ^ "UC Irvine – Faculty Profile System". www.faculty.uci.edu. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  34. ^ Hanley, Delinda C. ""American Task Force for Lebanon Holds Gala" by Hanley, Delinda C. – Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. 24, Issue 5, July 2005". Archived from the original on August 14, 2017.
  35. ^ Ebbeling, Vanessa (20 August 2006). "Historical Society to Honor Three Living Legends". Observer-Dispatch (Utica, NY). pp. 1B.
  36. ^ "Oneida County History Center | Historical Society | Utica NY". oneidacountyhistory.org. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
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