Cornell Belcher

Cornell Belcher is president of Brilliant Corners Research and Strategies, a boutique polling firm based in Washington, D.C. He specializes in designing unique opinion and market research for political, policy, and corporate clients. Belcher served as a pollster for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and is the first African American to serve as a pollster for either national party. Brilliant Corners was one of several researchers recently honored with a Gold Award for Research Achievement by the Advertising Research Foundation for the “Obama for President” campaign. Industry colleagues named him one of the Annenberg Public Policy Center pollsters of the year.