Pollster
Advantage, Inc.
- Polls since 2024
- 2
- Latest poll ended
- September 24, 2025
Polls from the VoteHub polling API, used under CC BY 4.0. Each result links to the pollster's or sponsor's own release. Imported once a day; a poll VoteHub later changes keeps its earlier version on record here.
§1About
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Advantage, Inc. is the firm named on polls for the Fiscal Alliance Foundation, which WAMC describes as Boston-based; no website of the firm itself could be read.1,
§2Who it works with
Why this matters: Owners, news partners and the firms behind a poll's interviews shape what gets asked, how, and what gets published.
Polls regularly for
- Fiscal Alliance Foundation (2021–now). The Fiscal Alliance Foundation's own release names Advantage, Inc. as the conductor of its February 2021 poll, and The Boston Globe and WAMC name the firm on the foundation's polls in March 2025 and September 2026.1,
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Who paid for its polls
| Sponsor | Polls | Between | Flagged party-aligned |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiscal Alliance Foundation | 2 | September 24, 2025 | Republican-aligned sponsor (2) |
§3Whom it works for
Why this matters: A firm that also works for one party's campaigns can still publish accurate polls, but readers deserve to know.
Doesn’t say whom it works for. The Fiscal Alliance Foundation release that names the firm says nothing about whether Advantage, Inc. works for candidates or parties, and no page by the firm itself was read.1
Of its 2 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 2 by a Republican-aligned sponsor4.
Federal campaigns and committees that paid it
From 2023 through 2026, 4 federal committees reported paying Advantage, Inc. $36,887 for polling, surveys or research5,
| Committee | Kind | Party it reports | Paid for polling | Between |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF BRUCE HOUGH | House campaign | Republican | $18,292 | September 1, 2023 – September 8, 2023 |
| ELECT PRINCIPLED VETERANS FUND (EPV FUND) | Super PAC | None reported | $7,282 | July 16, 2024 – August 5, 2024 |
| CLEARPATH ACTION FUND, INC. | Super PAC | None reported | $6,312 | June 21, 2024 – July 10, 2024 |
| OHIO REPUBLICAN PARTY STATE CENTRAL & EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE | Party committee | Republican | $5,000 | December 13, 2024 |
§4Its polls
| In the field | Question | Result | With | Paid for by | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 23–September 24, 2025 | Governor · 2026 Massachusetts | Maura Healey 45 · Mike Kennealy 34 | Fiscal Alliance FoundationRepublican-aligned sponsor | 750 LV | |
| September 23–September 24, 2025 | Governor · 2026 Massachusetts | Maura Healey 46 · Brian Shortsleeve 31 | Fiscal Alliance FoundationRepublican-aligned sponsor | 750 LV |
§5What we looked for and didn't find
- A web domain that a business directory associates with the firm (advainc.com) refused the request (HTTP 403), so what it is, where it is based, who leads it, its kind and its founding year were not found in a primary source.
- Business directories and a wiki describe an Alexandria, Virginia voter contact and fundraising firm named Advantage, Inc. with Republican ties; they are not primary sources, are listed under pointers, and were not confirmed to describe this pollster.
- No ownership, news partners, fieldwork or panel vendors, or campaign or party clients were found.
- Searches found no AAPOR statement, court ruling or filing, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction by the firm; a 2011 news report about a Colorado poll by a firm of the same name is listed under pointers.