Convention of States has agreed for Robert Cahaly, Senior Strategist and Pollster of Atlanta-based Trafalgar Group, to serve as an advisor to the COS South Carolina team in support of passing our resolution.
Robert Cahaly’s Trafalgar Group was one of the very few polling agencies that correctly predicted the election of President Trump. It consulted for a number of campaigns and interest groups around the country in the midterm election, including six gubernatorial races and five U.S. Senate races.
At a September 22 meeting in Lexington, Robert sketched out a bold new strategy for obtaining passage of the COS resolution in South Carolina. The most important observation Robert made was that all SC state senators are up for re-election in 2020.
As a result, they will be closely listening to their constituents in 2019, and those who represent themselves as conservatives will be looking for ways to re-establish their conservative bona fides with their electorate.
Robert also coined some memorable phrases worthy of repetition as we work to persuade our legislators:
- “Congress is a bigger danger to the Second Amendment than a Convention of the States”
- “The Founders supported Article V but warned us against political parties.”
- There is nothing ¾ of the states would ratify that scares me.”
- “Don’t be afraid of a tool the Founders gave us.”
On November 6, 2016, (two days before the presidential election), Robert Cahaly bet the future of his company on his team’s unorthodox polling methodology when national reporters asked if he would “stand by his polling results” showing a clear 300+ Trump victory, effectively rejecting the industry consensus of a significant Hillary Clinton electoral win. He didn’t back down, hedge his bet, or equivocate.
Cahaly stood firm saying, “On Wednesday I’m either going to be the guy who got it right, or nobody is going to listen to me anymore.” -Breitbart, 11/7/16
What happened next is history, but headlines and recognition for Cahaly and Trafalgar Group across America and around the globe had just begun.
“… a single firm had the most accurate polls in Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Colorado, Georgia – the up-and-coming Trafalgar Group, headed by Robert Cahaly. Trafalgar was also perhaps the only pollster to correctly call Michigan and Pennsylvania for Trump.” -The Weekly Standard, 11/21/16
