Newtown America: A Time To Sacrifice
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By: John Zogby Forbes.com Contributor
Just when you think that things have it rock bottom in Washington, someone is standing there with a jackhammer ready to go even lower. This week’s winner (or loser) is a fellow named Alan Gottlieb, executive director of the Second Amendment Foundation. Gottlieb says he was present during the discussions between Senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey and helped write the final version of their background check amendment, which he endorses. But, in what can only be described as a tacky, tasteless and gratuitous exercise, Gottlieb claims that the amendment is “… a Christmas Tree. We just hung a million ornaments on it. If you really read what’s in Manchin-Toomey bill – man it’s a godsend.” In what is supposed to be a signal that he personally has not let his supporters down, he felt compelled to go even further by saying that “We win (gun) rights back like crazy. I think we snookered the other side. They haven’t figured it out yet”.
Newtown America: A Time To Sacrifice (2)
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By: John Zogby Forbes.com Contributor
Just when you think that things have it rock bottom in Washington, someone is standing there with a jackhammer ready to go even lower. This week’s winner (or loser) is a fellow named Alan Gottlieb, executive director of the Second Amendment Foundation. Gottlieb says he was present during the discussions between Senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey and helped write the final version of their background check amendment, which he endorses. But, in what can only be described as a tacky, tasteless and gratuitous exercise, Gottlieb claims that the amendment is “… a Christmas Tree. We just hung a million ornaments on it. If you really read what’s in Manchin-Toomey bill – man it’s a godsend.” In what is supposed to be a signal that he personally has not let his supporters down, he felt compelled to go even further by saying that “We win (gun) rights back like crazy. I think we snookered the other side. They haven’t figured it out yet”.
ZOGBY: Obama Report Card - Obama has some big wins in sight
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Grade for April 7-14: B
"President Obama is taking a hard line on North Korea, dispatching Secretary of State John Kerry for a show of force and winning applause from most worried about the nuclear threat. He also scored compromise points with his budget, and this week's immigration debate should help the president's standing in the nation. From my perspective as a historian, it appears Obama is on the road to collecting some accomplishments."
Zogby family business returns to Broad Street
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Published in the Utica Observer Dispatch
April 08, 2013
UTICA — Veteran pollster John Zogby is back home at 901 Broad St.
Zogby, whose former business occupied the Utica office building for a decade, now works as a senior analyst for his son Jonathan’s company, Zogby Analytics. That company moved to the site of the former IBOPE Zogby International call center in early January.
“It was seamless,” said John Zogby. “Everything worked out nicely.”
The First Global Generation
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John Zogby is co-author with Joan Snyder Kuhl of the e-book The First Globals: Understanding, Managing, and Unleashing Our Millennial Generation (Spring 2013).
Please find a blog post below about the First Globals that Haley Cohen and Howard Dean published on the Huffington Post.
In the op-ed David Brooks wrote for the New York Times last Friday, he portrayed the millennial generation (which we call First Globals) as a group resistant to idealism and nonplussed by global activism. According to Brooks, young people today are disillusioned by the current system but too wary of untested antidotes to push for alternatives. They feel they must be egocentric to be successful.
Choosing Equilibrium, Receiving Dysfunction
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By John Zogby as published in The Financialist, a digital magazine sponsored by Credit Suisse. The digital magazine offers fresh commentary on breaking news as well as in-depth reporting on the issues, trends and ideas that drive markets, businesses and economies.
Assuming that we Americans still see ourselves as one nation and indivisible, it is hard to believe that there is a connection between our politics and what voters have actually expressed in recent years. Polling and voter behavior over the past decade and a half shows an electorate that favors change and problem solving. But in the actions of elected officials, we find too little of either.