Thursday, September 27, 2007

Pollster Profile: Fallon Research

The Triangle Community Coalition hired Ohio-based Fallon Research and Communications to conduct their latest poll. I honestly can’t find much out there about Fallon Research aside from their website. Most of their work appears to be on referendums for taxes, bonds, and land use.

Here is how the website describes their past clients: “developers, citizens groups, real estate companies, home building associations, apartment associations, REALTOR® associations, zoning law firms, environmental groups and engineering firms.This article describes them as a Republican polling firm, but I don’t see any other evidence of Fallon Research being explicitly partisan.

In fact the bio of founder Paul Fallon intentionally omits references to political parties. For example, “He previously served as director of public opinion research for a statewide political party.

Fallon Research appears to be a relatively new polling firm, but with lots of experience in the areas of housing and growth.

5 comments:

  1. NC Association of Realtors spent $43,740 in September on voter opinion survey services from Fallon Research & Communications.
    Paul Fallon is a public opinion researcher, political pollster and advisor for corporations, trade groups, levy committees, interest groups, political candidates and public organizations. He has worked on numerous projects, campaigns and ballot issues throughout the country. He also conducts customer, member, contributor and citizen satisfaction studies for government agencies, industry and labor groups, public agencies and private companies. He recently completed a 3-year stint as the director of public opinion research for the National Association of Home Builders. Paul was responsible for opinion research, as well as political polling for a highly successful ballot issue management program that resulted in numerous successes in campaigns at the state, county and local level. During that time he earned a reputation for helping candidates navigate complex growth issues affecting their campaigns. He previously served as director of public opinion research for the Ohio Republican Party.

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  2. That was an auto-bio from a 2004 article by Fallon.

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  3. I have been in politics for a long time and have used Paul personally for polling, focus group work and instruction on both of those topics for Campaign Schools I run for my members. He is the best I have worked with in the field and is very easy to work with. I couldn’t recommend anyone better for opinion research. Kipp Cooper Director of Government Affairs for the Greater Las Vegas Association of REALTORS.

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