Dr. James T. Kitchens is an attitude and mass persuasion specialist with a Ph.D. in political communication from the University of Florida. Dr. Kitchens is the author of The Four Pillars of Politics: Why Some Candidates Don’t Win and Others Can’t Lead, published in 2015 by Rowman & Littlefield Books.
In 1983, Dr. Kitchens founded The Kitchens Group, now one of the longest operating public opinion research and political consulting firms in the country. Dr. Kitchens has served as a pollster and strategist for campaigns at all levels of American politics, including Governor, U.S. Senate, fifty Members of the U.S. Congress, state-wide offices, referenda campaigns, legislative caucuses, associations and political parties, and corporate clients.
The Kitchens Group has interviewed more than five million Americans on a wide spectrum of topics including Presidential elections, environmental concerns, legal issues, health care, education, marijuana, gender and equality issues, and corporate concerns. Dr. Kitchens served on the faculty of Texas Christian University and the Graduate Program in Political Science at the University of Florida. He has guest lectured at the University of Kansas, the University of Alabama-Birmingham, Mississippi State University, Western Kentucky University, and Eastern Illinois University. He is the author of more than twenty academic research papers.
With a strong academic background and a proven expertise in attitude research, The Kitchens Group is able to identify those messages most effective in influencing the public’s behavior. The Kitchens Group developed methods of measuring the effects of the religious belief systems, subconscious gender and racial biases, and the psychological cross-pressures between economic and environmental concerns of the public.
The Kitchens Group is based in Orlando, Florida and, dating back to 1986, has extensive experience working in the state of Florida. The firm has conducted survey research and focus groups for coordinated campaign efforts, legal cases, referenda issues, legislative, and state-wide office elections.
Selected Client List
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards
The Nature Conservancy
Florida Democratic Party
Louisiana Democratic House Caucus
Responsible Ohio Marijuana Initiative
Americans for Equality
North Carolina Hospital Association
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt
Orleans Parish Zoo referendum
Ohio Democratic Caucus
Maryland Teachers Association
Service Employee International Union (SEIU)
Minneapolis Charter Amendment for Police Reform
Alliance for a Secure Kansas
Churchill Downs
Players International
Waste Management
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Jim Wright
Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell
Florida Congresswoman Karen Thurman