DemFromCT (Greg Dworkin)
Contributing Editor, Daily Kos, since 2004

Greg Dworkin, M.D. is a member of the Daily Kos class of 2004, although he’s been active on the site since 2003. Areas of special interest include polling data, Iraq and bird flu.
Dr. Dworkin is a founding editor of Flu Wiki (www.fluwiki.info) and its sister site, the Flu Wiki Forum (www.newfluwiki2.com). Dr. Dworkin has lectured on the topic of Flu Wiki and the internet at the UCLA School of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Flu Wiki’s volunteer community projects.

Charlie Cook is the Publisher of The Cook Political Report, and political analyst for the National Journal Group, where he writes weekly for National Journal magazine and CongressDailyAM . Widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading authorities on U.S. elections and political trends, Charlie is also an analyst for NBC.
The New York Times has called Cook, “...one of the best political handicappers in the nation” and noted that The Cook Political Report is “...a newsletter that both parties regard as authoritative.”

Mark Blumenthal is the editor and publisher of Pollster.com, the site that publishes poll results and a daily running commentary on political polling. Launched in 2006, Pollster.com builds on Blumenthal's Mystery Pollster blog, started in 2004. Blumenthal also writes a weekly column on polling for NationalJournal.com. Previously, Blumenthal gained more than 20 years of experience as a Democratic campaign pollster.

Along with Charles Franklin, Blumenthal received the Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award for Pollster.com from the American Association for Public Opinion Research. Blumenthal also received a special citation for coverage of polling from the National Council on Public Polls.

Nate Silver is an electoral and political analyst who has gained prestige for his political blog FiveThirtyEight.com. He is also a managing partner of Baseball Prospectus, a think tank that focuses on the statistical analysis of baseball.

He has appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Brian Lehrer Show, The Rachel Maddow Show and The Colbert Report. He has contributed essays and op-ed columns to The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, Esquire.

In September 2008, FiveThirtyEight became the first blog ever selected as a Notable Narrative by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.

Charles Franklin is co-developer of Pollster.com. Franklin's specialty is the graphical and statistical analysis of public opinion and voting behavior. Pollster.com (with partner Mark Blumenthal) is a widely cited source of non-partisan analysis of polling trends, winning the "Innovator's Award'' in 2007 from the American Association for Public Opinion Research, cited by the New York Times Magazine as one of the "Year in Ideas of 2008" and picked by Edward Tufte for best visualization of the 2008 election. He is past president of the Society for Political Methodology and was elected a Fellow of the Society in 2009.