Talk:Neil Newhouse

Misc sources
Some things I came across while assessing the AfD and expanding this but haven't put to use, in case they're helpful to someone:


 * Politico story: ""Neil moved up to Boston on Day One of the primary process. He was all in from the very beginning,” said Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades"
 * Roll Call story: suggests there's a 4th co-founder, Gene Ulm, and that all four of them were at Wirthlin; pre-election discussion of auto-dialling vs push-button; "Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-Mass.) January 2010 victory was “the longest three weeks of my life,” said Newhouse" (in 2011, though).
 * Duke Political Review interview: was studying voting behavior at undergraduate in 1972; interned at the RNC; chief of staff to a congressman at 24; a whole bunch of polling for Jeb Bush; "What I meant by [“the campaign won’t be dictated by fact checkers”] was that every ad we did in the Romney campaign was fact-checked internally."
 * Contributor description in a book: joined Wirthlin in 1986
 * Brief entry about POS: it's based in Alexandria, Virigina; lists some clients including politicians and businesses.
 * March 1988: VP at Wirthlin
 * April 1988: polling on support for Palestine and Israel
 * October 1988: VP at Wirthlin
 * February 1990: SVP at Wirthlin
 * March 1991: still at Wirthlin
 * July 1992: commenting on election
 * Polling encyclopedia from 2004: brief, generic mention; lists some clients; apparently more independent source for his graduate studies, but maybe unreliable since it says POS has done approval ratings for "some 30 years", despite being founded in 1991.
 * 1997 book: a few mentions; not read them but from the snippets I think they're short namechecks
 * chapter he wrote: at least, I think; the preview doesn't show enough to know if the whole chapter is him
 * Politico: just before the 2012 election, saying his profile has risen, "“Neil Newhouse is probably the most respected GOP pollster in the country,” said Nick Everhart, president of the Delaware, Ohio-based Strategy Group for Media"
 * HuffPo: Newhouse misspells "Reagan" in a Powerpoint slide; it's a story because the Romney app spelled "America" wrong the previous week
 * NPR: reach of political TV ads
 * Cincinnati Magazine 1996: long, detailed-looking piece about his involvement in a sales tax to fund a stadium
 * Esquire: details of a study about the 'New American Center' about which lots of other pieces (e.g. this in the Atlantic) were written; might be something giving enough detail about what he did personally to make it worth discussing.

Mortee (talk) 03:33, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Mention AAPC awards?
The AAPC awards are mentioned in several sources as being significant, but having seen the ad cited in his 2016 win here, I'm not 100% certain the award was meant as serious so I'm wondering whether to drop them from the article. Does anyone happen to know how they're regarded generally? Mortee (talk) 03:33, 17 January 2018 (UTC)