Kellyanne Elizabeth Conway is CEO and President of the polling company™, inc. a privately-held, woman-owned corporation founded in 1995. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC and maintains an office in New York City. Mrs. Conway is one of the most quoted and noted pollsters on the national scene.

Among her accomplishments, she was recognized as the most accurate predictor of the 2004 elections and received The Washington Post's "Crystal Ball" award and co-author of WHAT WOMEN REALLY WANT: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live (Free Press, 2005).  The book has met with critical acclaim for its ability to distill complex data into memorable message points, acronyms, and phrases.

Kellyanne has provided commentary on over 1,000 of television shows on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, HBO, Comedy Central, MTV and the Fox News Channel, and countless radio shows and print stories. Kellyanne has been profiled in over a dozen magazines, newspapers, and television programs.   Her polling data and op-eds have been published by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New York Post, The Washington Times, USA Today, National Review, Human Events, Investors' Business Daily, and Campaigns and Elections.

She is a board member of the National Journalism Center, the National Women's History Museum, and Men Against Breast Cancer and past member of the University of San Francisco School of Business Advisory Council.  Mrs. Conway retains memberships in the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and the Qualitative Research Consultants Association (QRCA).

Vice Presidential Nominee Geraldine Ferraro

Geraldine A. Ferraro is a Principal with Blank Rome Government Relations LLC.  Prior to joining Blank Rome, Ms. Ferraro chaired the Public Affairs practice of the Global Consulting Group (GCG), a leading international communications firm. 

Ms. Ferraro has counseled clients on a wide range of public policy issues not only giving strategic advice but also providing lobbying support when needed.  She has handled matters before agencies of the United Nations, the U.S. Government, the Congress, and the Conference of Mayors as well as certain state and local entities.  Her extensive work with the NGO community over her years in public service allows her the access necessary to build strategic alliances on behalf of her clients. 

Ms. Ferraro earned a place in history as the first woman vice-presidential candidate on a national party ticket.  She was first elected to Congress from New York's Ninth Congressional District in Queens in 1978 and served three terms in the House of Representatives.  Her committee assignments in Congress included the Public Works Committee, Post Office and Civil Service Committee, and Budget Committee.  Ms. Ferraro also served on the Select Committee on Aging.

From 1996 - 1998, Ms. Ferraro was a co-host of Crossfire, a political interview program, on CNN.  She was also a partner in the CEO Perspective Group, a consulting firm which advises top executives.  In 1994, she was appointed the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission by President Clinton and served in that position through 1996.  She served as a public delegate to the Commission in February 1993 and was also the alternate United States delegate to the World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in June 1993 and Vice-Chair of the U.S. Delegation at the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, September 1995.

An active participant in the nation's foreign policy debate, Ms. Ferraro serves as a Board member of the National Democratic Institute of International Affairs and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Ferraro is currently a political analyst for FOX News and a columnist for the New York Times Syndicate.

Ms. Ferraro received her J.D. degree from Fordham University School of Law.  She has honorary degrees from a number of colleges and universities nationwide and serves on several not-for-profit boards as well as on the board of Goodrich Petroleum Inc. 

Ms. Ferraro has written numerous articles as well as three books, Ferraro, My Story, which recounts the '84 campaign, Geraldine Ferraro: Changing History, and Framing a Life.

Bill Frist

Dr. Bill Frist, former U.S. senator from Tennessee, and Senate Majority Leader, Senate majority leader won election to the U.S. Senate as a Republican in 1994, pledging to serve only two terms and becoming the first practicing physician to serve in that body since 1928. His Republican colleagues unanimously elected him as the 18th majority leader in 2002, just eight years after his election and with less total time served in Congress than anyone ever to hold the position.  Frist voluntarily stepped down as majority leader and left the Senate in January 2007 to return to Nashville as a private citizen. 

Since leaving politics Frist has joined former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to co-chair the ONE Campaign presidential initiative, ONE Vote '08, a bipartisan effort to make global health and extreme poverty foreign policy priorities in the 2008 presidential election. He also serves on the boards of the Hope Through Healing Hands Foundation, Africare, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience, the Clinton Global Initiative's Global Health Working Group and the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project.

He is a graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, where he presently teaches a course on health care policy.  After graduating from Princeton, Frist earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School, where he graduated with honors in 1978, and spent the next six years in heart surgery training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Southampton General Hospital in England. His training culminated with his selection as chief resident in heart and lung surgery at Massachusetts General.

In 1985 Frist joined the team of heart transplant surgeon Dr. Norman Shumway at Stanford University. After completing his fellowship, Frist returned to his hometown of Nashville to serve as an assistant professor of surgery at Vanderbilt Medical School with a goal to create the region's first multi-organ, multidisciplinary transplant center.  Frist became the director of Vanderbilt University Medical Center's heart and lung transplantation program in 1986, and founded the multi-organ Vanderbilt Transplant Center three years later. Under his leadership, the center became recognized as one of the premier, full-service transplant facilities in the United States.

Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich is General Chairman of American Solutions for Winning the Future, and is well-known as the architect of the "Contract with America" that led the Republican Party to victory in 1994 by capturing the majority in the U.S. House for the first time in forty years.  After he was elected Speaker, he disrupted the status quo by moving power out of Washington and back to the American people.  Under his leadership, Congress passed welfare reform, passed the first balanced budget in a generation, and passed the first tax cut in sixteen years.  In addition, the Congress restored funding to strengthen our defense and intelligence capabilities, an action later lauded by the bipartisan 9/11 Commission. 

But there is a lot more to Newt Gingrich than these remarkable achievements.  As an author, Newt has published eighteen books including 10 fiction and non-fiction New York Times best-sellers.  Non-fiction books include his latest, Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less, in addition to others such as Real Change, A Contract with the Earth, Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America, To Renew America, Lessons Learned the Hard Way, Saving Lives & Saving Money, Window of Opportunity, The Art of Transformation, and Rediscovering God in America.  He is also the author of these fiction books: Gettysburg, Grant Comes East, Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant the Final Victory, 1945, Pearl Harbor, A Novel of December the 8, and his latest, Days of Infamy.  All of these novels are active history studies in the lessons of warfare based on fictional accounts of historical wartime battles and their aftermaths.  

Newt and his wife, Callista, host and produce documentaries.  Recent films include Rediscovering God in America and We Have the Power.  A third documentary, Ronald Reagan:  Rendezvous with Destiny, is currently in production.
In his post-Speaker role, Newt has become one of the most highly sought-after public speakers, accepting invitations to speak before some of the most prestigious organizations in the world.  Because of his own unquenchable thirst for knowledge, Newt is able to share unique and unparalleled insights on a wide range of topics.  His audiences find him to be not only an educational but also an inspirational speaker.

Widely recognized for his commitment to a better system of health for all Americans, his leadership helped save Medicare from bankruptcy, prompted FDA reform to help the seriously ill and initiated a new focus on research, prevention, and wellness.  His contributions have been so great that the American Diabetes Association awarded him their highest non-medical award and the March of Dimes named him their 1995 Citizen of the Year.  Today he serves as a Board Member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Recognized internationally as an expert on world history, military issues, and international affairs, Newt serves as a Member of the Defense Policy Board.  Newt is the longest-serving teacher of the Joint War Fighting course for Major Generals.  He also teaches officers from all five services as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Professor at the National Defense University .  Newt serves on the Terrorism Task Force for the Council on Foreign Relations.  He is an Editorial Board Member of the Johns Hopkins University journal, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, and is an Advisory Board Member of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.  Recently, Newt was named co-Chair of the UN Task Force, a bi-partisan Congressional effort to reform the United Nations. 

In 1999, Gingrich was appointed to the United States Commission on National Security/21st Century, the Hart/Rudman Commission to examine our national security challenges as far out as 2025.  The Commission's report is the most profound rethinking of defense strategy since 1947.  The report concluded that the number one threat to the United States was the likelihood over the next 25 years of a weapon of mass destruction -- nuclear, chemical, and/or biological being used against one or more major cities unless our defense and intelligence structures underwent a massive transformation.  That report was published six months before September 11.

Newt Gingrich is Chairman of the Gingrich Group, a communications and consulting firm that specializes in transformational change, with offices in Atlanta and Washington, DC .  He serves as General Chairman of American Solutions for Winning the Future (www.americansolutions.com), is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California and is an Honorary Chairman of the NanoBusiness Alliance.  Newt is also a news and political analyst for the Fox News Channel.

Newt Gingrich is a leading advocate of increased Federal funding for basic science research.  In 2001, he was the recipient of the Science Coalition's first Science Pioneer award, given to him for his outstanding contributions to educating the public about science and its benefits to society.

Newt was first elected to Congress in 1978 where he served the Sixth District of Georgia for twenty years.  In 1995, he was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives where he served until 1999.  The Washington Times has called him "the indispensable leader" and Time magazine, in naming him Man of the Year for 1995, said, "Leaders make things possible.  Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.  Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional."

His experiences as the son of a career soldier convinced him at an early age to dedicate his life to his country and to the protection of freedom.  Realizing the importance of understanding the past in order to protect the future, he immersed himself in the study of history, receiving his Bachelor's degree from Emory University and Master's and Doctorate in Modern European History from Tulane University.  Before his election to Congress, he taught History and Environmental Studies at West Georgia College for eight years.

He resides in Virginia with his wife, Callista.  The Gingrich family includes two daughters, two sons-in-law and two grandchildren. 

Colorado State Senate President Peter Groff 

The Honorable Peter C. Groff is the founder and executive director of the University of Denver Center for African American Policy. Developed and implemented by Mr. Groff, the Center is a non-profit organization whose mission is to work for and achieve a positive change in the present and future lives of African Americans through academics, the arena of public discourse, community and public service. In addition to his role as Executive Director, Mr. Groff is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Denver's Public Policy Program and the editor of the Center's websites, blackpolicy.org. Senator Groff is the co-host of a weekly radio show on XM Satellite Radio's political channel POTUS '08 and talk channel The POWER and the co-author of "Standing in Gap: Leadership for 21st Century." He is also the editor in chief of the bi-weekly Groff/Ellison Political Report on blackpolicy.org.

Senator Groff, who has been called the "Conscience of the Senate," currently serves as President of the Colorado Senate and is the first African American in Colorado to hold that post and only the third in the nation's history to hold the post of state Senate President. Mr. Groff became Colorado's sixth African American State Senator when he was appointed to the Colorado State Senate in February of 2003 and was elected to a full term on November 2, 2004. In January of 2005 he was elected the body's first African American President Pro Tem. He represents Senate District 33 in the City and County of Denver. Senator Groff was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2000 and was reelected in 2002. During his legislative career, Senator Groff has passed landmark legislation prohibiting racial profiling, requiring booster seats for young children, creating visionary education reform measures, securing tens of millions of dollars to combat health disparities and crafting Referendum C, which generated billions of dollars for critical state needs and infrastructure.

For his dedication of time and energy, Senator Groff has been recognized with various and sundry honors and awards, including being picked as a "person to watch in 2008" by BlackAmericaWeb.com.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Senator Groff was raised in Denver, Colorado. He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Redlands (CA), a Juris Doctorate from the University of Denver, College of Law and a Honorary Doctorate of Public Service from the University of Denver. He is married to the Rev. Dr. Regina C. Groff. Rev. Dr. Groff is the Pastor of the historic Campbell Chapel AME Church in Denver, Colorado. Both are parents to Malachi Charles and Moriah Cherie.

Lisa Keegan

Lisa Graham Keegan has spent 7 years as Principal Partner at the Keegan Company, where she consults with the education industry in areas of emerging markets, and also writes and speaks on critical issues in American education. Keegan's policy expertise, combined with her history of successfully implementing state-level and national education reforms, has made her a sought after education reform expert who frequently addresses the U.S. Congress, state legislative bodies, business groups, and education organizations.
Mrs. Keegan left her position as Maricopa County Assistant County Manager in May of 2008 to devote more time as a volunteer education advisor to the McCain 2008 Campaign for President.

Mrs. Keegan was Chief Executive Officer of the Education Leaders Council (ELC) in Washington DC from May 2001 until October 2004. Prior to ELC, Mrs. Keegan spent a decade serving as an Arizona state official, where she led that state's education reform movement. She was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 1990 and served two terms. During her tenure, she served as Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the House Education Committee and authored much of Arizona's education reform legislation in the early 1990's.

As Arizona Superintendent, Mrs. Keegan advanced teacher-driven academic standards - standards that were nationally praised for their clarity and rigor - and fought successfully for the implementation of school choice, including Arizona's landmark charter school and tuition tax credit laws, which together led to Arizona's number one rating in the Manhattan Institute's annual Education Freedom Index. She also led efforts to revise the state's school finance formulas to reflect a commitment to equal access...a job she considers unfinished.

Mrs. Keegan's leadership in Arizona earned her a national reputation as a strong advocate for student-based education policies. In March of 1999, Ms. Keegan was presented with the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation Award for Leadership in Educational Choice. She was honored in the same year by the Republican Women Leaders Forum as Educator of the Year. In 2000, she was education advisor to the John McCain Campaign for President, and was later interviewed by President-Elect Bush for the job of US Secretary of Education. Her work has appeared or been cited in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, Education Week, and Phoenix Magazine.

Mrs. Keegan graduated from Stanford University in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts in human language. She earned a Masters Degree in communications disorders from Arizona State University (ASU) in 1983. Keegan lives with her husband, Justice of the Peace John Keegan, who served as Mayor of Peoria, Arizona for a decade. They have five children and one grandson.

Larry Kudlow

Lawrence Kudlow is host of CNBC's primetime "Kudlow & Company," which airs nightly from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. He is also the host of "The Larry Kudlow Show" on WABC Radio on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Mr. Kudlow is a nationally syndicated columnist. He is a contributing editor of National Review magazine, as well as a columnist and economics editor for National Review Online. He is the author of "American Abundance: The New Economic and Moral Prosperity," published by Forbes in January 1998.

He is a Distinguished Scholar of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia.

Mr. Kudlow is CEO of Kudlow & Co., LLC, an economic and investment research firm. For many years Mr. Kudlow served as chief economist for a number of Wall Street firms. He was a member of the Bush-Cheney Transition Advisory Committee. During President Reagan's first term, Mr. Kudlow was the associate director for economics and planning, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, where he was engaged in the development of the administration's economic and budget policy.
He is a trusted advisor to many of our nation's top decision-makers in Washington and has testified as an expert witness on economic matters before several congressional committees. He has also presented testimony at several Republican Governors Conferences.

Mr. Kudlow began his career as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, working in the areas of domestic open market operations and bank supervision.

Mr. Kudlow was educated at the University of Rochester and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is an avid tennis player and golfer. He and his wife Judy live in New York City and Redding, Connecticut.

Former Colorado Governor Roy Romer

Mr. Romer was formerly Superintendent of Schools for the Los Angeles Unified School District. As Superintendent, he focused resources and attention on instruction and construction of schools. He advocated ambitious literacy and math plans that included computer-based learning programs and teacher training. As a result, scores in elementary school reading and math were above the national levels for the first time in decades.

Romer was Governor of Colorado for three terms, from 1986 to 1998, becoming the nation's senior Democratic governor, and was the general chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1997 to 2000. He was vice chair of the Democratic Leadership Council, an information-age think tank that examines national political and policy issues, where he studied effective educational strategies and school reform initiatives.

He served as chair of the Educational Commission of the States and the National Education Goals Panel. Romer was a legal officer in the U.S. Air Force and practiced law in Colorado. Romer earned his law degree at the University of Colorado.

Douglas Schoen

Douglas Schoen was a Founding Partner of Penn, Schoen, and Berland. In 1996 Schoen was named Pollster of the Year by the American Association of Political Consultants

Dr. Schoen was President William Jefferson Clinton's research and strategic consultant during the 1996 reelection, and has been widely credited with creating and effectively communicating the message that turned around the President's political fortunes between 1994 and 1996.

For more than twenty years Dr. Schoen has created winning messages and provided strategic advice to numerous political clients in the United States and to heads of state in countries around the world, including Greece, Turkey, Israel, the Philippines, Korea, the Dominican Republic, Bermuda and Yugoslavia.

Michael Williams: Chairman, Texas Railroad Commission

Michael L. Williams is the Chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas, the state's oldest regulatory commission. In November 2000, the people of Texas elected him to complete an unexpired term. In November 2002, they re-elected him to a full six-year term expiring in 2008. He was initially appointed to the Commission by then-Governor George W. Bush in December 1998 to fill a vacant seat. Williams served as Chairman of the Commission from September 1999 to September 2003. He is the first African American in Texas history to hold an executive statewide elected post.