Patrick Caddell(1950-2019)

Public opinion pollster who worked for Democratic Presidential candidates George McGovern in 1972 and Jimmy Carter in 1976, an expert in analyzing public opinion in the United States. President of Cambridge Survey Research, which conducts public opinion research and analysis for political candidates, business firms, and other clients. Publisher of the quarterly Cambridge Reports, which provide in-depth surveys on various subjects. He handled publicity and marketing research for director Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now (1979).

I went to one statistics class [at Harvard University] and lasted five minutes. I discovered that whatever they were doing and I was doing had nothing in common.