Talk:Neil Newhouse

This article was nominated for deletion on 15 January 2018. The result of the discussion was keep.

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)[reply]

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)[reply]