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American Viewpoint
- Polls since 2024
- 1
- Latest poll ended
- July 12, 2026
- Record vs. results, relative
- R+2.6
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 Viewpoint describes itself on its website as one of the leading Republican polling firms in the country, doing political and corporate polling along with healthcare and membership research.1 Its homepage says Linda DiVall founded it in 1985 and names Randall Gutermuth as president and CEO; its team page lists DiVall as executive chairman and says Gutermuth joined the firm in 2001.1,
§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.
Founded by
Led by
Published with
Names its polls have been published under, alongside other pollsters or news outlets.
- Greenberg Quinlan Rosner/American Viewpoint: GQR
Who paid for its polls
| Sponsor | Polls | Between | Flagged party-aligned |
|---|---|---|---|
| California First Fund | 1 | July 12, 2026 | Republican-aligned sponsor (1) |
§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.
Works for Republican candidates or groups. Its homepage calls it one of the leading Republican polling firms, and the party committees and legislative caucuses on its clients page whose party is named are all Republican, with no Democratic clients named; this rests on its own description and the clients it names.1,
- Republican National Committee. Its clients page lists the RNC, and its team page says DiVall and Gutermuth have worked for it.2,
3 - National Republican Congressional Committee. Its clients page lists the NRCC and its independent expenditure unit.3
- National Republican Senatorial Committee. Its clients page lists the NRSC and its independent expenditure unit.3
- Republican Governors Association. Its clients page lists the Republican Governors Association independent expenditure unit, and its team page says DiVall and Gutermuth have worked for the RGA.2,
3 - Romney-Ryan 2012 (2012–2012). Its clients page lists the Romney-Ryan 2012 presidential campaign, along with Bush-Cheney 2004 and McCain-Palin 2008.3
Of its 1 poll listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 1 by a Republican-aligned sponsor4.
Federal campaigns and committees that paid it
From 2023 through 2026, 19 federal committees reported paying American Viewpoint $2,105,763 for polling, surveys or research5,
| Committee | Kind | Party it reports | Paid for polling | Between |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SLF PAC | Super PAC | None reported | $667,613 | April 18, 2024 – April 30, 2026 |
| NRCC | Party committee | Republican | $300,700 | January 31, 2024 – September 18, 2026 |
| AMERICAN PATRIOTS PAC | Super PAC | None reported | $176,900 | May 17, 2024 – September 11, 2024 |
| JEFF HURD FOR CONGRESS | House campaign | Republican | $153,300 | April 12, 2024 – May 29, 2026 |
| FEENSTRA FOR CONGRESS | House campaign | Republican | $145,850 | July 11, 2023 – May 28, 2024 |
| ARIZONA GRASSROOTS ACTION PAC | Super PAC | None reported | $81,900 | January 30, 2023 |
| MARGARITA WILKINSON FOR CONGRESS 2024 | House campaign | Republican | $76,650 | January 19, 2024 – February 22, 2024 |
| MISSOURI CONSERVATIVES FOR CONGRESS PAC | Super PAC | None reported | $69,600 | August 7, 2024 |
| MICHELLE STEEL FOR CONGRESS | House campaign | Republican | $69,350 | August 19, 2024 – October 26, 2024 |
| HEARTLAND RESURGENCE | Super PAC | None reported | $59,800 | November 20, 2024 – March 2, 2026 |
| CENTRAL VALLEY VALUES PAC | Super PAC | None reported | $51,300 | February 29, 2024 |
| KEVIN MCCARTHY FOR CONGRESS | House campaign | Republican | $47,300 | June 26, 2023 |
§4Record against results
Why this matters: The one test that doesn't depend on other polls: how close a firm's final polls came to what voters did.
From FiveThirtyEight's final public data9,
| Published as | Polls | Elections | Average miss | Relative to other polls | Typical size of miss | 538's last rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Viewpoint | 8 | 2000–2018 | R+3.6 | R+2.6 | 4.2 pts | 1.2 of 3 · 1% partisan work |
| Greenberg Quinlan Rosner/American Viewpoint | 6 | 2010–2016 | R+4.3 | D+1.0 | 4.4 pts | Not graded (inactive) |
ABC News closed FiveThirtyEight in March 2025; its data stops at the 2022 elections. 2026 results will be added once states certify them.
§5Its polls
| In the field | Question | Result | With | Paid for by | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 8–July 12, 2026 | U.S. House · 2026 CA-40 | Ken Calvert 33 · Young Kim 32 | California First FundRepublican-aligned sponsor | 400 LV |
§6What we looked for and didn't find
- Its website gives no street address or city, only a 703 area code phone number.
- No ownership information was found beyond its founder and current leaders.
- No standing news partner was found.
- No fieldwork or panel vendor is named.
- The Young Kim campaign page given as the sample release describes a super PAC polling memo without naming the pollster or the California First Fund, so that poll's sponsor link was not confirmed.
- Its clients page also lists Republican-aligned super PACs and groups such as the Congressional Leadership Fund and Senate Leadership Fund; these were not recorded as party clients.
- Searches found no AAPOR statement, court ruling, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction.