Judy Miller, Douglas Schoen & Alvin Felzenberg

Press Pollsters & Politics

April 12, 2024 at 11:30 a.m.

Sailfish Club

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Judith Miller, now a Palm Beach resident, is a veteran investigative reporter also formerly with The Times.  Now a contributing editor of Manhattan Institute’s City Journal and a Fox News commentator, she shared a Pulitzer at the Times for the paper’s groundbreaking investigation of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, which the paper published nine months before 9/11. In 2005, she went to jail for nearly three months to protect her sources. She is the author of several books, including “The Story, a Reporter’s Journey,” a memoir.

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Douglas E. Schoen has been one of the most influential Democratic campaign consultants for over thirty years. A founding partner and principal strategist for Penn, Schoen & Berland, he is widely recognized as one of the co-inventors of overnight polling. Schoen was named Pollster of the Year in 1996 by the American Association of Political Consultants for his contributions to President Bill Clinton's reelection campaign.  Internationally, he has worked for the heads of state of over 15 countries, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and three Israeli Prime Ministers.  He is the author of multiple books, most recently publishing, The Power of the Vote: Electing Presidents, Overthrowing Dictators, and Promoting Democracy Around the World in 2007, Declaring Independence: The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System in 2008, The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America and What Makes You Tick? How Successful People Do It – and What You Can Learn from Them in 2009, and The Political Fix: Changing the Game of American Democracy, from the Grassroots to the White House in 2010. He is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and various other newspaper and online publications. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alvin S. Felzenberg is a presidential historian, political commentator, and former public official. He holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University and has lectured at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and George Washington Universities. In 2006, Felzenberg was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Felzenberg has served in two presidential administrations, as official spokesman for the 9-11 Commission, on the majority senior staff of several House of Representatives committees, and as New Jersey’s Assistant Secretary of State. He is the author of A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley, Jr., 2017, The Leaders We Deserved…Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game, 2008, and Governor Tom Kean: From the NJ Statehouse to the 9-11 Commission, and of the forthcoming, “Thomas Jefferson,” in The American Presidents, Iain Dale, editor, among other publications. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard, The Christian Science Monitor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Boston Globe, and other periodicals, and as a guest on major public affairs broadcasts. Felzenberg is a former columnist with U.S. News and World Report. He divides his time between Washington, DC, and Palm Beach, Florida.

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