Mileah K. Kromer, the Goucher College political scientist who is one of Maryland’s most prominent pollsters, has launched her own survey research firm.
Kromer’s new company, Federal Hill Research Group — named for her Baltimore City neighborhood — aims to attract business from nonprofits, advocacy groups and government agencies. This will be a side gig for Kromer: She’ll retain her position as director of the Sarah T. Hughes Field Politics Center at Goucher, which runs well-regarded student-conducted statewide polls.
Mileah Kromer
“I’ve developed a lot of expertise in Maryland public opinion,” said Kromer, who added that she hopes potential clients will value her experience and resist the growth of “do-it-yourself polls, which I think are actually pretty dangerous. They can distort public opinion and lead to bad decisions.”
Kromer said her new firm would not conduct political horse race polls or do broad looks at voter opinion on key issues and political players in the state — the bread and butter of the Goucher Poll.
Kromer has been at Goucher for eight years. She previously worked for four years at Elon University as the assistant director of the Elon University Poll, where she designed surveys on North Carolina politics and policy. Before that, she spent five years working at Louisiana State University’s Public Policy Research Lab while completing her Ph.D. in political science.
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Founding Editor Josh Kurtz is a veteran chronicler of Maryland politics and government. He began covering the State House in 1995 for The Gazette newspapers, and has been writing about state and local politics ever since. He was an editor at Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, for eight years, and for eight years was the editor of E&E Daily, which covers energy and environmental policy on Capitol Hill. For 6 1/2 years Kurtz wrote a weekly column on state politics for Center Maryland and has written for several other Maryland publications as well. Kurtz regularly gives speeches and appears on TV and radio shows to discuss Maryland politics.
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