William "Bill" McInturff is a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 pollster, the co-founder (and partner) of Public Opinion Strategies, and, along with Peter D. Hart

Peter D. Hart

Peter D. Hart is the chairman of Peter D. Hart Research Associates since 1971, and is a Senior Counselor to . Together with Robert Teeter or Bill McInturff, Mr. Hart and his company have provided NBC News and The Wall Street Journal with polls since 1989. More than 40 U.S...

, the lead pollster for the NBC News

NBC News

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/Wall Street Journal polling series for the past decade. He was the lead pollster for John McCain

John McCain

John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election....

 in his 2008 bid for the office of United States President. He has built Public Opinion Strategies into the largest Republican polling operation, representing 19 American Senators

United States Senate

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 and over 50 Congressmen

United States House of Representatives

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. His work includes testing the Harry and Louise

Harry and Louise

"Harry and Louise" was a $14 to $20 million year-long television advertising campaign funded by the Health Insurance Association of America —a predecessor of the current America’s Health Insurance Plans —a health insurance industry lobby group, that ran intermittently from September 8, 1993 to...

 commercials that were run against the Clinton health care plan of 1993.