Christine Matthews is president of Bellwether Research & Consulting. She has directed polling for hundreds of campaigns at every level at her own firm and as vice president and partner for other leading survey research firms. Her expertise includes political campaigns and public affairs issues
and advocacy.
She has been a political commentator for
MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, CNN, and served
as a 2004 election night analyst for the BBC.
She has been quoted in The New York
Times, Washington Post, Washington Times,
Time, Businessweek, and Salon. Chris has
taught seminars for the Women's Campaign
Fund, The WISH List, The Lugar Series,
The Lincoln Series, American University,
and has lectured at Harvard’s Kennedy
School of Government.
She served as a panelist for the Center for New American Security's Solarium II project, " A Strategy for American Power: Energy, Climate & National Security"
and contributed a paper on the topic: http://www.amazon.com/Strategy-American-Power-National-Security/ dp/1935087010/
She has worked on presidential campaigns in the U.S. and in the Phillipines and has directed polling for numerous gubernatorial races, including those in Hawaii and Guam, and polled for congressional and state legislative races in every region of the country. Chris received her B.A. from Indiana University and her M.A. from Georgetown University, completing her master’s thesis on “The Politics of Suburban Sprawl.”
"Future of the Republican Party" panel
hosted by Potomac Strategic, November 2008
