Ed Goeas

For the last thirty years, Ed Goeas has been President/CEO of The Tarrance Group, one of the most respected and successful Republican survey research and strategy teams in American politics. They currently serve as the pollster for 30 current Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, 12 U.S. Senators, and 5 Governors. Over the last thirty years, the team at The Tarrance Group has elected serval hundred Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senators, and dozens of Governors across the country.

In recognition of the number of winning campaigns conducted by The Tarrance Group, in 1994 Ed was honored as “Pollster of the Year” and Ed and his partners Brian Tringali and Dave Sackett were honored as “Republican Pollsters of the Year” in both the 2010 and 2014 election cycle by the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC). Ed is also widely recognized as one of the country’s leading political strategists having done extensive survey research on Health Care, Criminal Justice Reform, Immigration Reform, Education, and Youth Voters. He was appointed as Program Director for the 2008 Republican National Convention for John McCain and served for twenty-five years on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Political Consultants. Ed was the longest-serving member of the Board, focusing his efforts on campaign ethics and promoting increased youth participation in the industry.

In addition to his campaign work, Goeas works in partnership with Democratic pollster Celinda Lake on the nationally recognized “Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service Battleground Poll,” one of the country’s most respected national political research programs. In 2011, Lake and Goeas were awarded the “Distinguished Service to the Profession Award” for their body of work on the Battleground Poll over it’s first twenty years. Lake and Goeas have now coauthored a book “A Question of Respect; Bringing us Together in a Deeply Divided Nation,” which is being released shortly after the November 2022 Elections. Ed is married to Lisa Goeas, Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Joni Ernest. The Goeas’ and their sons Bennett and Robert live in Alexandria, Virginia, and Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina. Their daughter Emma graduated from SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) in Savannah, GA in June of 2022, and has moved to LA to pursue her dream in 3D animation.