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Cherry Communications

Research draft

Polls since 2024: 2
Latest poll ended: May 9, 2026
Record vs. results, relative: R+3.2

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.

Cherry Communications is a Tallahassee, Florida company whose website describes it as a source of live-voice telephone polls and surveys, plus text polling, and says it also conducts phone interviews for consultants, universities and businesses that lack their own call center.¹ Its website says Linda Z. Cherry started the company in 1990, that Jim Cherry, its managing member, joined in 1992, and that Blaine Cherry is a member and its director of research.¹

Kind: Commercial firm¹
Founded: 1990¹

§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

Florida Chamber of Commerce (2014–now). Florida Chamber of Commerce releases name Cherry Communications as the firm that conducted the Chamber's statewide telephone polls of likely voters in October 2014 and May 2026.^2,3

Founded by

Linda Z. Cherry (1990). Its website says Linda Z. Cherry started Cherry Communications Company in 1990.¹

Led by

Jim Cherry. Its website lists Jim Cherry as managing member.¹

Who paid for its polls

Sponsors named on its polls, most polls first⁴. A party-aligned flag is VoteHub's, per poll.
Sponsor	Polls	Between	Flagged party-aligned
Florida Chamber of Commerce	2	May 9, 2026	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. Its website names no campaign or party clients and does not say whether it works for one party. Its biographies describe Jim Cherry as a Republican activist since 1970 who held posts in the Republican Party of Florida, and say Linda Cherry worked on Reagan-Bush campaigns and for the Republican National Committee; those describe its members, not its clients.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.

§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 data^5,6: general-election polls between a Democrat and a Republican in the last three weeks before each election, compared with the certified result. FiveThirtyEight rated each name polls were published under separately. Across all 8,957 such polls, the average miss was D+0.7, so the relative figure takes out the misses every pollster shared that year.

Error is the poll's D−R margin minus the result's; D+ means it showed Democrats doing better than they did.
Published as	Polls	Elections	Average miss	Relative to other polls	Typical size of miss	538's last rating
Cherry Communications	5	2014–2022	R+0.9	R+3.2	6.4 pts	1.0 of 3 · 1% partisan work

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

The 2 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the field	Question	Result	With	Paid for by	Sample
May 1–May 9, 2026	U.S. Senate · 2026 Florida	Ashley Moody 48 · Alexander Vindman 40		Florida Chamber of CommerceRepublican-aligned sponsor	604 LV
May 1–May 9, 2026	Governor · 2026 Florida	Byron Donalds 47 · David Jolly 39		Florida Chamber of CommerceRepublican-aligned sponsor	604 LV

§6What we looked for and didn't find

No ownership information was found beyond the members its website lists.
Its website names no news outlet partners and does not name the consultants or universities for which it conducts interviews.
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 2006 Nevada news report on a push-poll complaint that quotes Jim Cherry about calls for another firm is listed under pointers.