Pollster · Commercial firm

Civiqs

Research draft
Polls since 2024
3
Latest poll ended
May 20, 2025
Record vs. results, relative
D+1.3

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.

Civiqs describes itself as a polling and data analytics firm that conducts public opinion research online, says it has fielded more than five million surveys since 2013, and names Drew Linzer as director and chief scientist.1 Its methodology page says it owns and operates its own opt-in online panel, recruited mainly through internet ads, and its FAQ says it selects panelists using voter file lists and reaches them by email.1,2 Its FAQ says it is based in Oakland, California, while its site lists a New York post office box and directs inquiries through a form titled Contact Murmuration for Inquiries and a [email protected] address.1,3

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

  • Daily Kos (2025–now). Civiqs publishes polls for Daily Kos: its reports describe an April 2025 Daily Kos/Civiqs poll of 1,124 registered voters and a May 2025 Daily Kos national survey of 1,018 registered voters fielded on the Civiqs panel.4,5

Led by

  • Drew Linzer. The Civiqs FAQ and its May 2025 Daily Kos report name Drew Linzer as director of Civiqs.1,5

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
Daily Kos5July 30, 2024 – May 20, 2025Democratic-aligned sponsor (5)

§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 FAQ says it does not adjust or alter its results to promote any viewpoint, but neither the FAQ nor its polling services page says whether it works for candidates or parties or names any clients other than Daily Kos.1,3

Of its 3 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 5 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor6.

Federal campaigns and committees that paid it

From 2023 through 2026, 1 federal committee reported paying Civiqs $2,535 for polling, surveys or research7,8,9,10. By the party each committee reports to the FEC: 0 Democratic, 0 Republican, and 1 none (most PACs and super PACs report none).

The largest payers, by amount paid for polling, surveys or research. Only federal committees report to the FEC; state and local campaigns, work paid through another consultant, and polling billed as consulting are not here. Matched by the payee name on the filing: CIVIQS.
CommitteeKindParty it reportsPaid for pollingBetween
CEDAR KEY PROGRESSSuper PACNone reported$2,535August 2, 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 data11,12: 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 asPollsElectionsAverage missRelative to other pollsTypical size of miss538's last rating
Civiqs382020–2022D+4.1D+1.34.7 pts2.4 of 3 · 0% 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 5 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
May 17–May 20, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 52 · Approve 47Daily KosDemocratic-aligned sponsor1,018 RV
April 18, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 53 · Approve 46Daily KosDemocratic-aligned sponsor1,124 RV
February 28–March 3, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 52 · Approve 48Daily KosDemocratic-aligned sponsor1,031 RV
September 14–September 17, 2024Favorability · JD VanceUnfavorable 54 · Favorable 38Daily KosDemocratic-aligned sponsor1,041 RV
July 27–July 30, 2024Favorability · JD VanceUnfavorable 51 · Favorable 34Daily KosDemocratic-aligned sponsor1,123 RV

§6What we looked for and didn't find

  • Its pages do not say who owns Civiqs or explain its tie to Murmuration, and Murmuration's home and insights pages do not mention Civiqs; no primary source was found for any ownership by Kos Media.
  • No founding year is stated; the FAQ dates its surveys to 2013.
  • No start date for the Daily Kos arrangement was found beyond the 2025 reports read.
  • Searches on 2026-11-06 for AAPOR statements, court rulings or settlements, regulator actions, aggregator decisions and retractions or corrections found none naming Civiqs or its polls, and Silver Bulletin's ratings chart on Datawrapper, updated January 12, 2026, grades it B rather than the F it gives banned pollsters.