Pollster · Nonprofit
Center for Excellence in Polling
- Polls since 2024
- 1
- Latest poll ended
- January 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.
A July 2021 release from the Foundation for Government Accountability describes the Center for Excellence in Polling as a project of FGA and calls FGA a nonprofit think tank working in several states on health care, welfare and work reform.1 FGA's About page says Tarren Bragdon founded FGA in 2011 and leads it as president and CEO, gives a Naples, Florida address, and lists the polling center among FGA's special projects.2 In a January 2023 post, FGA said the center published more than 60 public polls in 2022, including more than 40 state-level polls in 29 states.3 Newsweek reported a center survey of 519 likely Arizona voters conducted January 22 to 24, 2026, without describing the center.4
- Kind
- Nonprofit1
§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.
Part of
- Foundation for Government Accountability. FGA's July 2021 release calls the center a project of FGA, and FGA's site lists it under its special projects.1,
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 FGA pages read describe the center as informing policymakers about voters' views but do not say whether it works for candidates or parties.1,
Of its 1 poll listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor5.
§4Its polls
| In the field | Question | Result | With | Paid for by | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 22–January 24, 2026 | Governor · 2026 Arizona | Katie Hobbs 50 · Andy Biggs 41 | 519 LV |
§5What we looked for and didn't find
- The center's own website, excellenceinpolling.com, returned 403 and was not read, so its leadership, methodology and launch date come only from FGA pages; the earliest reference found is FGA's July 2021 release.
- No fieldwork or panel vendor was confirmed; pollsters.json notes that Cor Services polls for FGA appear on the center's site, which this pass could not check.
- FGA's nonprofit status rests on its own description; no tax filing was read, and its About page also mentions a partner 501(c)(4).
- No standing news partner was found.
- Searches found no AAPOR statement, court ruling, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction.