Michael Bloomfield is the Executive V.P. and Managing Director of The Mellman Group, which has provided analysis and strategic advice to political leaders, interest groups, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies for over thirty years.  The Mellman Group is the only three-time winner of “Pollster of the Year” honors from the American Association of Political Consultant.

Michael has established a reputation for helping Democrats win in so-called “red states”. He helped Brian Schweitzer get elected, as the first Democratic Governor in Montana in two decades – and then worked with the DGA on independent expenditures to elect and re-elect his successor, Steve Bullock. He has been the pollster for the North Carolina House for nearly 20 years –helping them pick up seats even during the toughest election cycles.

Michael has helped win elections with award winning campaigns across the county.  These include John Barrow for Congress in Georgia which was recognized by The Washington Post and The Rothenberg Report as one of the best campaigns in the country; Mike Duggan for Mayor of Detroit which won a Reed Award from Campaigns and Elections as “Best Bare Knuckled Street Fight”; and the Garden State Forward Independent Expenditure in New Jersey recognized by Campaigns and Elections as one of the top victories in the country for protecting a Democratic legislative majority in spite of a 20 point landslide for the Republican Governor.

He helped pass Prop 22 in California, to protect app-based drivers, which was the costliest initiative battle in the nation’s history.  Then came back the next cycle to help defeat the gaming initiative in California, despite even higher spending, setting a new national record.

He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, the BBC and Fox with his analysis of elections and political trends, and has been published in the New York Times and the Jerusalem Post.

Before joining The Mellman Group, he served as Political Director of AIPAC, The American Israel Public Affairs Committee. During his tenure, Capitol Hill’s newspaper, Roll Call, selected him as one of the fifty most influential people working behind the scenes in Washington, and AIPAC was twice ranked as the second most effective lobbying organization by Fortune Magazine. He managed a local campaign in his hometown of Toledo, Ohio and later worked on Capitol Hill for Senators Don Riegle, Howard Metzenbaum, and Edward Kennedy. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.

He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and children. He qualified for and ran the Boston Marathon, which was his fifth, and possibly last marathon (but still runs a 10-K now and then).