Winning the White House 2008: The Gallup Poll, Public Opinion, and the Presidency - Softcover

Frank Newport, Gallup Editor-in-Chief and one of the nation s leading public opinion analysts, has spent the major part of his working life studying public opinion much of that opinion about religion. Newport earned a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan and has worked as a college professor, as a partner in a market research firm, and as Gallup s chief pollster for more than 20 years. He is the former president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. The son of a Southern Baptist theologian, Newport grew up in that tradition in Texas and graduated from Baylor University. Newport s religious background and his current role as a neutral social scientist give him a unique ability to probe the reality of religion in the United States today.