Christopher Blunt

Christopher Blunt's writing has appeared in Ultracycling, Columbia, Our Sunday Visitor, MercatorNet, and a host of professional publications. His debut novel, Passport, won a bronze medal for best religious fiction in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. His latest novel, Full Cycle, tells the story of a young boy who challenges himself (and his father) to complete a 200-mile, single-day bicycle ride.

Mr. Blunt holds bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from Northwestern University (1991), and a doctorate from UCLA (2002). He currently manages his own public opinion research consulting practice, Overbrook Research. He also serves as an analyst with CNN's decision team; using statistical vote models, he helps the network correctly project the outcome of congressional, gubernatorial, presidential, and other contests on election night.

An accomplished cyclist, he has completed over thirty double century rides, multiple triple centuries, 12-hour, and 24-hour races. He is a four-time winner of the California Triple Crown, and a sixteen-time finisher of the Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic.

A native of the Seattle area, he currently resides in rural mid-Michigan with his wife and five children. They own a fifteen-acre farm, where they raise pastured broilers, dairy goats, purebred Icelandic sheep, heritage turkeys, geese, ducks, and free-range laying hens.