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The Right Idea is Back!

By Kristen | Published: July 1, 2010
The online talk show I host, produced by The Winston Group and the fabulous Lisa Mathias, is back! We’ve been posting episodes over the last few weeks and I wanted to share them here. TRI Ep. 40: Hearings, Spies, and Kill Switches from The Winston Group on Vimeo. TRI Ep. 39: “Departures, Borders and Soccer” [...]
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Vote for my sister!

By Kristen | Published: May 16, 2010
My sister Heather is up for a great reporting opportunity with Nike Women…and she needs our help to get it!  Please take a look at her reel and vote her as five stars.  Spread the word if you think she rocks (and I promise you will!) UPDATE: The embedded video doesn’t work right now (come [...]
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AAPOR 2010: Day 1

By Kristen | Published: May 14, 2010
If I was given a survey about my experience at AAPOR thus far, I would absolutely say I have a “strongly favorable” view of the conference! Sessions kicked off this afternoon and I sat in on two fantastic panels: one about ABC News’ groundbreaking research in Afghanistan (check out my writeup at Pollster.com- it includes [...]
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AAPOR 2010!

By Kristen | Published: May 11, 2010
Tomorrow I’m off to Chicago for a week for the American Association of Public Opinion Research conference.  While the subject matter may seem dry to many outside the polling field (non-response bias! advances in survey weighting! predictive survey modeling!) it is going to be immensely fun for me.  I was envious last year of those [...]
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John O’Hara on the Daily Show

By Kristen | Published: April 21, 2010
So life in Washington has offered me a lot of exciting moments and has given me a lot of fantastic experiences, and it also means that I’ve got a lot of friends who are doing some really phenomenal things.  One of these is my friend John, who is living the dream – he has a [...]
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National Geographic’s “Explorer”

By Kristen | Published: April 14, 2010
Last night, Chris and I were lucky enough to attend the premiere of National Geographic’s “Explorer: 25 Years” program, a retrospective highlighting the most compelling moments in 25 years of producing Explorer.  For those who have never watched Explorer, the program does everything from more traditional Planet Earth-y natural history episodes to investigative journalism into [...]
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Creative Destruction: Episode 20

By Kristen | Published: April 13, 2010
So nowadays, most of the media hits I do are short and somewhat pre-planned (I know the topic ahead of time, even if only for a few minutes).  Last Friday, I had the chance to go on a show that dramatically breaks out of that box: Creative Destruction, the podcast by my friend Rob Montz. [...]
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iLove the iPad

By Kristen | Published: April 12, 2010
As you may know, The Winston Group is essentially a small chapter of the Cult of Steve Jobs.  When he gives a keynote, the company freezes and watches liveblogs.  We all have iPhones use iMacs or MacBooks (or both).  Last year, we went so far as to send Chris and me to San Francisco for [...]
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Newt: Be the “Party of Yes”

By Kristen | Published: April 8, 2010
So despite the misconceptions of a handful of liberal bloggers during the swirl of attention around our tea party memo, my firm is not owned by Newt Gingrich.  I’ve only met him once in my life, at a breakfast where he signed a copy of “Winning the Future,” a book I am ashamed to admit [...]
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Tea Party Mania

By Kristen | Published: April 5, 2010
So a lot of what I do at the Winston Group is client based (and, therefore, rarely talked about outside long strategy memos and presentations), but every so often we get an opportunity to release data to the public.  Our work for New Models lets us go into the field once or twice a month [...]
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