Keith Frederick is the owner of FrederickPolls, LLC based in Arlington, Virginia.  FrederickPolls is one of the country’s leading issue and campaign polling firms.  Keith has over 30 years’ experience providing strategic message and targeting advice based on the polls and focus groups he conducts for clients that include: political candidates; national trade associations; major national and regional corporations; ballot issue campaigns; labor unions; membership organizations; and non-profits.

Keith Frederick founded FrederickPolls in 2000 after serving 5 years as partner of FSR, the public opinion research subsidiary of The Cassidy Companies – Washington, DC’s largest government relations and public affairs organization.

FrederickPolls clients include: American Express, First Wind, Clear Channel Communications, Defenders of Wildlife; Credit Union National Association; Centex Homes; Qwest Communications; Duke Energy; North Carolina Blue Cross and Blue Shield; Altria; Rubber Manufacturers Association; United Food and Commercial Workers; Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital (GA); Mirant Corporation; and American Medical Association.

Issue areas of expertise include: health care; transportation funding; energy generation; “green” housing; telecommunications policy; education funding; growth politics; financial services; and the politics of social issues such as Abortion and Gay Rights.

Some political clients: Governor John Baldacci; Congressman Ed Perlmutter; Congressman Alan Mollohan; Senator Mark Warner; Tim Cahill (Governor, Massachusetts 2010); Eliot Cutler (Governor, Maine 2010); Steve Shannon (Attorney General, Virginia 2009).

Keith Frederick is a member of the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) and studied quantitative political science methods at the undergraduate and graduate level at George Washington University, Clemson University, and Virginia Tech.