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 the former
Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder and the former
British Prime Minister Tony Blair,
Michael Häupl and the Austrian
SPÖ.
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, 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.
During his work for the Austrian
SPÖ Greenberg was heavily criticized and derided by
FPÖ leader
Jörg......
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