Pollster · Commercial firm

American Pulse Research & Polling

Research draft
Polls since 2024
5
Latest poll ended
September 24, 2026

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.

American Pulse Research & Polling describes itself as a survey research firm doing political polling, market research and telephone surveys for corporate, government, legal, academic and political clients, using live-agent interviews from its own call center, IVR, text-to-web and online panels.1,2 Its blog identifies Dustin Olson as lead pollster and managing partner.3 Its site sells memberships in a Polling Club that gives members poll toplines and, at paid tiers, crosstabs and input on survey design.4

Kind
Commercial firm1

§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.

News partners

  • NonStop Local Montana (2026–now). A September 28, 2026 article on the NonStop Local Montana news site says polling of Montana's 1st Congressional District fielded September 19 to 24, 2026 was released by NonStop Local and American Pulse's Polling Club members; it does not describe a standing arrangement.5

Led by

  • Dustin Olson. Its blog names Dustin Olson as lead pollster and managing partner.3

Who paid for its polls

Sponsors named on its polls, most polls first6. A party-aligned flag is VoteHub's, per poll.
SponsorPollsBetweenFlagged party-aligned
KULR-TV2September 24, 2026No

§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. Its pages read list political work among its sectors but do not say whether it works for candidates or parties, and the officials quoted in its homepage testimonials are given no party labels.1,4

Of its 5 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor6.

§4Its polls

The 6 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
September 19–September 24, 2026U.S. House · 2026 MT-01Aaron Flint 45.9 · Sam Forstag 45.4 · Nick Sheedy 5.4KULR-TV314 LV
September 19–September 24, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 MontanaKurt Alme 45 · Seth Bodnar 26 · Alani Bankhead 19KULR-TV604 LV
June 23–June 25, 2025Generic congressional ballot · 2026Dem 46.6 · Rep 42.4633 RV
June 23–June 25, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpApprove 49.7 · Disapprove 48.9633 RV
December 17–December 20, 2024Favorability · JD VanceFavorable 45.3 · Unfavorable 42.3661 LV
July 26–July 29, 2024Favorability · JD VanceUnfavorable 45.3 · Favorable 381,035 LV

§5What we looked for and didn't find

  • No founding year, headquarters or ownership was found.
  • The NonStop Local article read does not give the poll's mode or say who paid for it, and a second NonStop Local article on its Montana Senate polling returned HTTP 429 and could not be read.
  • VoteHub lists KULR-TV as the sponsor of its Montana polls; the article read names NonStop Local rather than the station, so the relationship is recorded under that name.
  • No outside fieldwork vendor is named; its homepage says it runs its own call center.
  • On 2026-11-06 AAPOR's statements list (five pages), FiftyPlusOne's August 2026 notice suspending pollsters and web searches for court cases, regulator actions, aggregator statements and retractions or corrections naming American Pulse Research & Polling or Dustin Olson found none.