Floyd Ciruli

Floyd Ciruli is widely regarded as the dean of Colorado public opinion research. He founded Ciruli Associates, a research and consulting firm specializing in public policy and research in 1985.

Mr. Ciruli holds a law degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and a bachelor’s degree cum laude in political science from UCLA.  He is a member of the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), and is the past-president of the Pacific Chapter of AAPOR (PAPOR).  Mr. Ciruli is Director of the Crossley Center for Public Opinion Research and an adjunct professor teaching public opinion and foreign policy at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies.  He is past-president of the Georgetown Law Alumni Board.

Mr. Ciruli is widely known to Colorado audiences as a pollster and political analyst for 9-KUSA TV, KOA Radio and The Denver Post.  He regularly speaks before Colorado, national and international audiences on issues regarding public opinion.  He was recently a featured speaker at an international conference on public opinion research in Buenos Aires. He publishes political and public opinion analyses in The Denver Post, and the Denver Business Journal. He posts at the state’s leading blog for politics and trends at www.fciruli.blogspot.com.