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Council on American Politics Ed Goeas Ed Goeas is President and C.E.O. of The Tarrance Group, one of the most respected and successful Republican survey research and strategy teams in American politics today. Widely recognized as one of the country's leading political strategists, Goeas serves as pollster to five Republican Governors, sixteen Republican U.S. Senators, and over forty Republican Members of Congress. Among his clients are: Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, House Majority Leader Dick Armey, and Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson. In the last two election cycles, Goeas and his firm helped to elect three new Republican Senators, and two new Governors including Tim Hutchinson of Arkansas - the first Republican elected to the U.S. Senate from the state since Reconstruction - and Bill Owens, the first Republican Governor of Colorado in nearly three decades. In addition to his campaign work, Goeas, along with Democrat pollster Celinda Lake, heads up the "Battleground" research program - one of the country's leading national political research programs. Since 1992, the Battleground national poll has consistently been one of the most accurate in predicting the outcome of presidential and national elections. Along with Lake, Goeas also serves as the pollster for the highly respected news magazine, U.S. News & World Report. Goeas has been widely published in professional and academic journals, including the Yale Law and Policy Review, on a variety of public policy issues based on his national research. Goeas has also worked on a number of foreign campaigns in Russia, Hungary, France, and the Philippines. Frequently sought as a political analyst, Goeas regularly appears on national public affairs programs including: Meet the Press, This Week, Good Morning America, The Today Show, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, FOX News with Brit Hume, MSNBC Equal Time, America's Talking, C-Span and CNN Inside Politics. During the 1994 election cycle, Ed was recognized by Democrat and Republican members of the American Association of Political Consultants as "Pollster of the Year." Most recently, National Journal reported that the 1996 campaign season "proved that the Alexandria (Va.)-based Tarrance Group, headed by Edward A. Goeas III, is now unquestionably the premier Republican polling firm." In his more than twenty-five years of working professionally in
politics, he has served as the National Political Director of the
National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), a field operative
for the Republican National Committee, campaign manager in several
campaigns, and Chief of Staff to a U.S. Congressman.
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