Vic Fingerhut has designed successful campaigns for progressive candidates and parties over several decades. He has been behind some of the most dramatic positive shifts in public opinion for progressive causes and candidates for over five decades in a wide variety of diverse locales and countries, including the national TV campaign that in 1995 dropped Newt Gingrich’s and the GOP’s ratings by 10 points in less than a week. Fingerhut can be reached at vic@vicfingerhutcampaigns.com.
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8 Messaging Tips for Embattled Democrats from a Longtime Pollster
A seasoned pollster explains the message Dems should be hammering home for the upcoming elections to prevent a Republican landslide.
Vic Fingerhut
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Obama, There’s Still Time
To win, the president needs to stop listening to the Democratic Party elite.
Vic Fingerhut
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Winning in 2012
Wooing the volatile, mistrustful, anti-political — but crucial — Independent vote
Vic Fingerhut
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Obama and the State of Democrats
We ignore the lesson of 1931, 1948, 1984 and 1988 at our peril.
Vic Fingerhut
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