Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast I'm Sarah

Longwell publisher of the bulwark and this week we are assessing the aftermath from the Democratic National Convention

and that aftermath is mostly good. As you heard last week on my show with Joe Pertaone,

the first night of the convention was a bit of a snoozer with vote. show with

a show perdicone the first night of the convention was a bit of a snoozer with voters in our focus groups

but the rest of the convention was pretty good. While it was clear that

voters weren't hanging on every word from Chicago,

voters did like the positivity they saw from Democrats.

And now, this is Labor Day weekend,

and it is the traditional start of the fall campaign. So to evaluate

the post-D and see polls and to compare this Democratic National Convention to

previous cycles, my guest today is John Anselonioni, partner on impact research, former

pollster for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden. John, thanks for

being here. Hey, thanks for having me, Sarah. So you're a pollster, but how many focus groups do you do you do just do

focus groups all the time too you know I'm over the a thousand mark in my career because I've been

doing this for 40 years right and you know in the last five years not so much you know we've got a whole kind of team of people who do these now

But they were without a doubt I think my most favorite part of research, as you know, as you do them, to kind

of get a granular view of what people are thinking in their own words is really, really important for campaigns and for you know staff and candidates to see without a doubt.

Yeah we're just to satisfy my desperate curiosity and convey them in a podcast which is what I do. So you and High, we were together at the convention.

We were doing like a little thing with Cook Political Report and the Institute of Politics at

University of Chicago with David Axelrod.

So we were doing a little panel.

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