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CAUTION: 10 THINGS TO BE AWARE OF IN USING POLLING TO GUIDE MESSAGES

By Richard KirschOctober 28, 2016
Points 5-10 This is the second of two posts.   Richard Kirsch, Director Our Story – The Hub for American…
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CAUTION: 10 THINGS TO BE AWARE OF IN USING POLLING TO GUIDE MESSAGES

By Richard KirschOctober 28, 2016
The first 4 things: All About Your Audience This is the first of two posts. Richard Kirsch, Director Our Story…
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NEW! How do progressives win governing power in an era where right-wing populism is ascendent?
Richard Kirsch offers a long analysis of the challenges we face and what we need to do.


Key Message Research
The Winning Jobs Narrative provides great narrative and message advice for how to tell the middle-out story that working people are the engine of our economy, the heroes of our story.

Talking About Race - Message Advice

Villains and Heroes in the Economy and Government


What People are Saying About Our Story
These are unsolicited responses to work we’ve done with groups.

“This is immensely helpful!”

“Thank you so much for this work. It’s great.”

"I'm excited to see you out there on the importance of talking about race head-on."

"You've been a leading voice for a long time. Thanks for your pioneering--and continuing--work."

“Your work has been fantastic and it helped fill gaps and the meet important needs. From the op-eds you drafted, to the talking points, research summaries and more, everything was top quality. We really valued your strategic thinking on these issues as well as your ability to seamlessly plug into the campaign, not to mention your the quickly turn around on your quality work.”

“Thanks so much for all of your help -- your economic message work was huge in helping Oregon win our increase earlier this year.”

“This is phenomenal. So useful/practical. You took it to the next level. Thank you.”

“Thanks for all the great work you continue to do in the narrative space.”
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