General Release
January 30, 2002

McLaughlin and Associates would like to congratulate co-authors Dr. Larry Sabato, Ph.D., and Bruce Larson on the just-published Second Edition of:

The Party's Just Begun — Shaping Political Parties for America's Future

McLaughlin and Associates was happy to help Larry and Bruce by providing polling data from two national polls conducted specifically for this project. Their analysis of our polling data and evaluation of our present Party government system is refreshing and honest.

"We want to provide special thanks to our pollster John McLaughlin and his firm for agreeing to conduct the book's survey for us - and for fitting the survey in during the heat of the 2000 presidential election season! Chip Mertz of McLaughlin and Associates deserves special thanks for his enormous assistance in constructing the poll questions and structuring the survey questionnaire. Despite having enough of his own work to do, Chip was always available to lend his unparalleled expertise to our project. Working closely with McLaughlin and Associates allowed us to experience first-hand why the outfit is considered one of America's premiere polling firms."

— Excerpted passage from Preface

We highly recommend reading it.  Purchasing information for the book can be found by clicking on this link.

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