Zogby grew up in Utica, New York, the son of Lebanese Catholic immigrants. His brother, James Zogby, is the founder of the Arab American Institute, and is also an independent pollster and Senior Analyst with Zogby Analytics.
An interpreter of politics, Zogby ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Utica, New York, in 1981. He describes himself as a Democrat, while his polling firm is “independent and nonpartisan.”[4] He served on the advisory council for Bio-Technology for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and as a Commissioner on the Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Smart Power, after having previously served on the Congressional-created Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World.[5]
Zogby International[edit]
Zogby founded the polling firm Zogby International in 1984. Since then, he has conducted polls and focus groups around the world, including the polling of Arab attitudes toward the U.S., particularly in regard to Lebanon. He gained the most publicity for his polls of U.S. presidential elections.[citation needed]
Zogby first gained attention in the 1992 presidential election when he released a survey showing the New York State Governor Mario Cuomo would lose in his home state to incumbent President George H. W. Bush. That poll is widely thought to have pushed Cuomo from the race. Zogby gained more national attention in the 1996 presidential election when his final poll came within a tenth of a point of the actual result. Zogby also correctly polled the cliffhanger result of the 2000 presidential election won narrowly by George W. Bush, in contrast to most other pollsters who had expected Bush to win easily.[citation needed]
Zogby International also achieved success with elections in countries outside the U.S. Zogby correctly called the 2001 Israeli election for Ariel Sharon, the 2000 Mexican election for Vicente Fox, and again in Mexico with the victory of Felipe Calderón in 2006.[citation
Funny...I didn’t see your post and posted much of the same material myself.
They are devious and underhanded IMO. With them (as a business acquaintance once said of all Arabs) “you never see the sword coming.”