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Warren Mitofsky is the director of interactive communications research. Warren was the director of the CBS News and Election unit, and started the CBS/New York Times Poll in 1975. He was the founder of the Voter News Service and has been president of both AAPOR and NCPP.

Warren Mitofsky, a projection godfather and the man behind the curtains at both CBS News and CNN on Election Night.

NBC used the VNS data to project Gore the winner. Mitofsky directed CBS and CNN to do the same minutes later. Mitofsky accepts blame for making the mistake.

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Warren Mitofsky says that two polls on whether people believed Clinton had sexually assaulted (or raped) Juanita Broderick had different results because Fox's question was "loaded" but CNN's was not.

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There are other reasons polls may tilt slightly toward Democrats. Warren Mitofsky, who developed exit polling for CBS News in the 1960s, believes Democrats are more likely to respond to media polls than are Republicans, who may distrust the "liberal" news media.

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CBS went back to Warren Mitofsky who was by then a successful political consultant.

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Speaking at a public panel discussion last week on "The Press and the Presidency: Who Picks the Candidates?" national political analysts Warren Mitofsky and Robert Teeter and journalists Richard Berke of the New York Times and Tom Hannon of CNN concurred that the media increasingly wields greater influence in how presidential nominees are chosen.

Mitofsky also worked on 34 U.S. Senate races, 11 governor's races, and a handful of referendums.

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Warren J. Mitofsky, president of New York-based pollster Mitofsky International, Inc., wrote in the June/July issue of Public Perspective that 'there is no valid purpose to the current Internet enterprise.'

The main concern is that Internet users do not accurately reflect all Americans since they still tend to be wealthy, educated, white, urban and male.