Douglas Schoen

Douglas E. Schoen
Born	June 27, 1953 (1953-06-27) (age 58)
Nationality	United States
Education	Harvard College, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1974 Harvard Law School, J.D. Oxford University, Ph.D.
Occupation	Writer, pollster, editor, biographer, communications strategist, researcher, consultant, commentator, business executive, entrepreneur, and historian
Employer	Research and strategic consultant, President William Jefferson Clinton, 1994-2000 lead strategic advisor, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, 2001, 2005 Commentator for Fox News Penn, Schoen, and Berland Associates (a strategic research firm), founding partner and chair Communications strategist, strategic researcher, and consultant for major corporations, businesses, politicians, and political leaders.
Political party	Democratic party (United States)
Board member of	Phoenix House Public Color International Crisis Group Street Squash USC School of Communication other charitable organizations
Website
Douglas E. Schoen Home Page HarperCollins Web site
Notes [1][2]

Douglas Schoen is an American political analyst, pollster, author, and commentator. He is a political analyst for Fox News. He partnered with political strategist Mark Penn and Michael Berland in the firm of Penn, Schoen & Berland. He believes that lower taxes would be a successful Democratic strategy, opposed President Obama's Affordable Care Act, warned the Democratic Party to reject the Occupy Wall Street protest, and recommended that President Obama not run for reelection in 2012.^[3][4]

Schoen graduated from Harvard College (magna cum laude) and Harvard Law School^[1][5] and attended Horace Mann School in New York City.^[6] While still a high school student, he canvassed the Upper West Side for Dick Morris.^[2] Schoen and Mark Penn went to high school together, and they worked together on The Harvard Crimson.

He has worked on the campaigns of many Democratic party candidates including Ed Koch and Bill Clinton,^[2] as well as on behalf of corporate clients. He also did work for Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.^[7][8] Schoen was a consultant for Jeff Greene in the 2010 Florida Senate election.^[9]

Positions

Schoen said that President Obama should not seek relection in 2012. He criticized the President for dividing the country along partisan lines, and said that the Affordable Care Act had been a "disaster" for the Democratic Party.^[4][3]

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Shoen wrote, “President Obama and the Democratic leadership are making a critical error in embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement—and it may cost them the 2012 election.”^[3][10]

Shoen said the protesters represent “an unrepresentative segment of the electorate that believes in radical redistribution of wealth, civil disobedience and, in some instances, violence,” and that their common bond is “a deep commitment to left-wing policies.”^[3][10] Shoen believes that the Democratic Party should not appeal to voters who support taxing oil companies and the rich, but rather to voters in the middle who want lower taxes.^[3]

However, other authors reviewed the answers and said that Schoen misrepresented the results. When asked, "What frustrates you the most about the political process in the United States?" 30% said "Influence of corporate/moneyed/special interests," and 21% said "Partisanship." Only 3% said, "Our democratic/capitalist system" and 6% said "Income inequality."

When asked, "What would you like to see the Occupy Wall Street movement achieve?" 35% said "Influence the Democratic Party the way the Tea Party has influenced the GOP" and 11% said, "Break the two-party duopoly." Only 4% said "Radical redistribution of wealth."^[11][12][13]

Bibliography

• Mad As Hell: How the Tea Party Movement Is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System (Harper, 2010) with Scott Rasmussen.
• The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America coauthored with Michael Rowan. Hardcover: 240 pages Free Press (January 6, 2009) ISBN 1416594779 ISBN 978-1416594772
• What Makes You Tick?: How Successful People Do It—and What You Can Learn from Them coauthored with Michael Berland (May 26, 2009)
• The Power of the Vote: Electing Presidents, Overthrowing Dictators, and Promoting Democracy Around the World 416 pages Harper Paperbacks (January 8, 2008) ISBN 0061440809 ISBN 978-0061440809
• Declaring Independence: The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System 272 pages Random House; 1 edition (February 5, 2008) ISBN 1400067332 ISBN 978-1400067336
• On the Campaign Trail: The Long Road of Presidential Politics, 1860-2004 416 pages Harper Paperbacks (June 29, 2004) ISBN 0060734825 ISBN 978-0060734824
• Perverting Democracy. (monitoring elections in other nations): An article from: Campaigns & Elections [HTML] (Digital) coauthored with Mark J. Penn in Campaigns & Elections August 1, 1993 Campaigns & Elections, Inc. Volume: v14 Issue: n3 Page: p28(2)
• Pat—A Biography of Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Jan 1, 1979) & Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Biography (Textbook Binding - May 1979)
• Enoch Powell and the Powellites 317 pages Palgrave Macmillan (May 1977) ISBN 0312256728 ISBN 978-0312256722

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Douglas E. Schoen." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Gale Biography In Context. Web. Fee, via Fairfax County Public Library. Retrieved 3 Nov. 2010. Document URL http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=K12-Reference&prodId=BIC2&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000192962&mode=view&userGroupName=fairfax_main&jsid=2ff0ccfb280ac69c3a2039a6144bddab Gale Document Number: GALE|H1000192962
2. ^ ^{a b c} Stengel, Richard; Pooley, Eric; August, Melissa; Birnbaum, Jeffrey H.; Duffy, Michael; McAllister, J.F.O.; Novak, Viveca; Edwards, Tamala M. (Nov. 18, 1996). "Masters of the Message". Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985538-3,00.html. Retrieved 2010-11-03. "The client was the President. Morris asked Schoen if he was interested in doing some polling for the White House. It was an offer no pollster could refuse. Schoen was also eager to work with Morris, who had been a mentor to him. In high school Schoen had canvassed races for Morris on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Schoen and his partner, Penn, who had attended Harvard together, later distinguished themselves as New Democratic consultants and pollsters for Mayor Ed Koch of New York City, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Evan Bayh of Indiana. They had also polled for a succession of Arkansas politicians, including Clinton's rival, former Governor Jim Guy Tucker." 
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} Schoen warns W.H.: Don't back 'Occupy' By MJ Lee, Politico, October 18, 2011
4. ^ ^{a b} Opinion | One and done: To be a great president, Obama should not seek reelection in 2012 By Douglas E. Schoen and Patrick H. Caddell, November 14, 2010
5. ^ "About Doug". http://www.powerofthevote.com/about_doug_schoen.php. Retrieved 2010-11-03. 
6. ^ Weisberg, Jacob (August 7, 1995). "Who is Dick Morris?". New York Magazine: pp. 34 et seq.. http://books.google.com/books?id=ROMCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=horace+mann+high+school+alumni+%2Bschoen&source=bl&ots=zQIAiE56Ai&sig=kBgdcTSFf5YQOH7kqvAmjvChY1s&hl=en&ei=tBnSTL2SL4GB8gay-vHeDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&sqi=2&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2010-11-03. "Penn and Schoen are ... city bred prodigies. The two attended Horace Mann together and became a political team at Harvard, where they worked on the Crimson. ... As pollsters, the Laurel and Hardy-ish pair are known for a hard quantitative bent ... But if Penn and Schoen are moderates..." 
7. ^ Steve Benen Clinton pollster urges senator to go relentlessly negative April 16, 2008 Salon.com
8. ^ Glenn Greenwald Douglas Schoen and Hillary's slimy pollsters September 27, 2008 Salon.com
9. ^ http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0410/Dems_worry_about_a_subprime_billionaire_in_Florida.html
10. ^ ^{a b} Polling the Occupy Wall Street Crowd: In interviews, protesters show that they are leftists out of step with most American voters. Yet Democrats are embracing them anyway. By DOUGLAS SCHOEN, Wall Street Journal, OCTOBER 18, 2011
11. ^ Survey: Many Occupy Wall Street protesters are unhappy Democrats who want more influence, By Azi Paybarah, Capital New York, Oct. 18, 2011
12. ^ Doug Schoen Grossly Misrepresents His Own Poll Results To Smear Occupy Wall Street By Judd Legum, Think Progress,Oct 18, 2011
13. ^ Benen, Steve. "Doug Schoen isn't helping his reputation". Political Animal blog. Washington Monthly. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_10/doug_schoen_isnt_helping_his_r032892.php#. Retrieved 10/19/2011. 

Further reading

• ABA Journal, May, 1980, Gerald C. Tobin, review of Pat: A Biography of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, p. 618.
• America, May 5, 1979, Joseph P. Parkes, review of Pat, p. 377.
• Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, January, 1978, review of Enoch Powell and the Powellites, p. 332.
• Commentary, November 1, 1979, James A. Nuechterlein, review of Pat, p. 85; September 1, 2007, Dan DiSalvo, "The Pollster," review of The Power of the Vote, p. 77.
• Foreign Affairs, May–June, 2009, Richard Feinberg, review of Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War against America, p. 177.
• Kirkus Reviews, December 15, 2008, review of Threat Closer to Home.
• Library Journal, June 1, 1979, review of Pat, p. 1238.
• The New Republic, September 15, 1979, Carl Gershman, review of Pat, p. 37.
• New York Times Book Review, June 17, 1979, Walter Goodman, review of Pat, p. 11.
• Publishers Weekly, March 26, 1979, review of Pat, p. 72; June 9, 2008, "Schoen Solutions," review of The Political Fix: Changing the Game of American Democracy, from the Grassroots to the White House, p. 8
• Publishers Weekly, April 20, 2009, review of What Makes You Tick? How Successful People Do It—and What You Can Learn from Them, p. 44.
• Reference & Research Book News, February, 2005, review of On the Campaign Trail: The Long Road of Presidential Politics, 1860–2004, p. 171.
• Wall Street Journal, January 6, 2009, Mary Anastasia O'Grady, "Abuse of Power: Threat Closer to Home, by Douglas E. Schoen and Michael Rowan," review of Threat Closer to Home, p. A13.
• Washington Monthly, May, 1979, review of Pat, p. 61.
• Washington Post Book World, February 22, 2009, Linda Robinson, "How Dangerous Is This Man?," review of Threat Closer to Home, p. B7.
• Green, Joshua. "Hype or perish: how to become a cable TV expert on the Tea Party when there's really nothing new to say." Washington Monthly Sept.-Oct. 2010: 98+. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. Review of Mad as Hell.

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