Many of Dr. Blunt’s clients are other research firms, ranging in size from the global to the boutique, who entrust him with the next-level analysis of their data. These include one of the country’s most prominent microtargeting firms, for whom he has produced countless voter turnout and other models over the last ten national election cycles. Another client, a trial consulting firm, has relied on his research and analysis to guide jury selection in over a dozen high-profile cases, including some in the federal Southern District of New York. For other clients, he has produced consumer segmentations and attribute driver models that have helped guide national and international product marketing campaigns. He also serves as an analyst with a major news network’s decision team, using statistical vote models to correctly project outcomes on every national general election night since 2006.

Dr. Blunt worked with Fred Steeper at Market Strategies, Inc., a national marketing research and Republican polling firm, for a dozen years before founding Overbrook Research in 2003. He is a member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). He holds Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in political science from Northwestern University, and later went back to complete a doctorate at UCLA. A native of the Seattle area, he and his family currently live in rural mid-Michigan, where they own a fifteen-acre farm.