Biography

Andrew Baumann is a Senior Associate at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner where he specializes in U.S. campaigns and political issues.  Baumann leads the firm’s work for the Michigan Democratic House and Senate Caucuses where he is currently overseeing polling in over 40 state House and Senate districts.  His current and recent work includes:

• Congressman Gary Peters (MI-09)
• Gary McDowell for Congress (MI-01)
• Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) Independent Expenditure Committee for Colorado
• Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)
• Michigan Democratic Party
• Progress Michigan
• SEIU Healthcare Michigan

From 2008 to 2010, Baumann directed polling for Democracy Corps, a non-profit organization founded by Stan Greenberg and James Carville that provides strategic messaging and targeting advice to progressive groups, candidates and leaders.

Under Baumann’s direction, Democracy Corps conducted extensive research into major national issues including health care, energy and the economy that provided key strategic analysis and advice for progressive leaders at the White House, on Capitol Hill, at party committees like the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and with organizations such as the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

Baumann also led the development of Democracy Corps’ pioneering cell phone methodology, as the organization became the first progressive group to make cell phone interviewing part of its regular practice and still is one of the few national organizations to include “cell-mostly” respondents, people who have a landline phone but who use their cell phones for most calls (and are unlikely to pick up their landline for a traditional survey). 

During the 2008 cycle Baumann also focused on the U.S. presidential campaign, leading the quantitative research program for an independent expenditure campaign working to elect a Democrat to the White House and bring about progressive change.

Prior to joining the firm, Baumann worked as the Deputy Research Director at the DSCC, assisting the successful campaigns of Jim Webb, Sherrod Brown, Bob Casey and Sheldon Whitehouse, among others. He has also served as Research Director for Senator Kent Conrad and worked on the research and policy staffs of America Coming Together, Senator Joe Biden, and Governor Howard Dean.

Baumann has also worked as an energy policy consultant at the state and federal level, and as an electrical engineer for Lockheed Martin. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master’s degree in Materials Science from Stanford University.