Joel Benenson
Founder and CEO of Benenson Strategy Group
Joel Benenson is the founder and CEO of Benenson Strategy Group, and the only Democratic pollster in history to have played a leading role in three winning presidential campaigns. Joel has been the chief pollster and chief campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, a senior strategist for President Barack Obama beginning with his 2008 campaign, and has worked on President Bill Clinton’s polling team during the 1996 race.
Joel’s corporate clients have included top executives at the Campbell Soup Company, HBO, Toyota, the NFL, Procter & Gamble, Panera Bread Co., Hearst, Blue Star Energy, and MSNBC. In the advocacy and nonprofit sector, he has worked with leading institutions including AARP, League of Conservation Voters, SEIU, Clean Energy Works, and Grocery Manufacturers of America.
Before becoming a pollster in 1995, Joel was a political journalist for the Daily News in New York and served as communications director for Governor Mario Cuomo’s 1994 campaign. He was also previously a vice president at the New York ad agency FCB.
Benenson spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2016.
Twitter: @benesonj
Read more:
Evelyn Doskoch, ‘Former Obama, Clinton pollster Joel Benenson talks campaign strategy ‘,The Daily Princetonian, 3 October 2019.
‘Joel Benenson Named Burson-Marstellar Worldwide Vice Chair’, PR News Wire, 12 January 2017
Sandy Fitzgerald, ’Joel Benenson: Race, Comey Played Into Clinton’s Loss’, Newsmax, 2 December 2016
