The first thing you need to build a bridge is a support.
We provide the support that helps our clients build connections – whether you need to create a winning majority in a campaign or communicate to fragmented audiences. We help you find the solidity of a starting point from which to bridge the divisions your effort confronts – be those political, gender, or social. We have spent years listening to voters, consumers and employees; seeing what makes heads start to nod; and then building messaging and strategies that extend from that firm foundation of unity.
In a seemingly divided country, Americans continue to tell us that they want people to come together – whether as a nation, in the work place, or in their communities. At New Bridge, we are in the business of helping forge connections - across party lines, across generations, across geographies, and across information gaps.
LORI WEIGEL
Lori Weigel is the Principal of New Bridge Strategy, a research firm based in Colorado. Weigel has directed research efforts for hundreds of political and public affairs campaigns throughout the country, including assisting with efforts at the presidential level four times. With roots in Republican politics, she focuses on helping her clients bridge partisan divides and create winning majorities.
Her political work today is primarily focused on polling for and against ballot measures. She has polled on behalf of the winning side of ballot measure campaigns in states as varied as Arkansas, Illinois, Oregon, Washington, California, New Jersey, Florida, Maine, and Colorado. Most recently she conducted research on behalf of successful measures in three states, including Colorado. In the 2020 election, the 14 ballot measures on which she conducted the research were all victorious. The same was true for 18 measures on which she polled in the 2018 election.
Her experience polling on policy issues extends to such varied areas as health care, energy, land use, food and alcohol regulation, recreation, technology, tort reform/litigation, corporate image, employee/union relations and crisis management.
Formerly serving as the political pollster for Denver’s News 4 and the Rocky Mountain News, she is frequently quoted on politics and policy, including in The New York Times, the LA Times, the Colorado Sun, and many others.
Weigel was a partner for over twenty years with Public Opinion Strategies, the largest Republican polling firm in the country. She previously was a Vice President for another GOP firm, The Tarrance Group. She graduated cum laude from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service with a B.S. in International Politics. She lives in Golden with her blended family of four college and high school students and a rescue dog.
KATHRYN HAHNE
Kathryn Hahne is a Director at New Bridge Strategy, an opinion research company specializing in public policy and campaign research.
Kathryn has worked on a variety of political and public affairs campaigns across the country on topics including ballot measure campaigns, corporate image and brand research, conservation and land use, education, and health care. In 2022, she led research efforts for numerous local ballot measures as well as the successful statewide Colorado measure to allow the sale of wine in grocery stores. She is a RIVA-trained moderator. Prior to joining New Bridge Strategy, she was a Senior Research Assistant and Project Director with Public Opinion Strategies.
Kathryn graduated from The Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Public Policy and a B.A. in Foreign Affairs. She is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She resides in Denver, Colorado where she enjoys hiking, skiing, and volunteering for Girls on the Run.
KAroline mcgrail
Karoline McGrail is an Insights Analyst at New Bridge Strategy. Karoline has worked on a wide range of public policy issues including corporate image and brand research, energy policy, conservation and land use, health care, technology, and tax issues.
Karoline has extensive ballot measure experience, polling for successful state and local campaigns in Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, and Oregon, including seven major statewide wins since 2014. In 2020, she served as Research Director on the team that helped guide the winning strategy for the Yes on Proposition 22 campaign in California.
Karoline is a RIVA-trained moderator who is skilled in a range of research platforms and technologies, including in-person interviews and focus groups, online qualitative research, and online ad/concept testing. Before joining New Bridge Strategy, she was a Senior Research Assistant, Project Director, and Research Director at Public Opinion Strategies.
Karoline graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Alabama with a B.A. in Classics and received her Master’s in Public Policy from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. She lives in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and daughter.
“It was my business to cross the bridge…” ~ Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man at the Bridge