Concord Public Opinion Partners

§1About

✎ Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Concord Public Opinion Partners says on its About page that it provides survey research to public officials and organizations and that its primary focus is where K-12 education issues and politics meet.¹ The About page names co-founders Harrison Farnsworth and Karina Sanchez, its in-house pollster, says both also hold staff roles at Democrats for Education Reform, and says Farnsworth earlier worked for the Iowa Democratic Party and on Barack Obama's campaigns.¹ Its poll memos describe live calls to cell phones and landlines combined with text-to-web surveys, and two 2023 memos, for Memphis and Montgomery, list Democrats for Education Reform as the sender.² Its Our Work page shows logos it labels as partners, including Achievement First, 50CAN, Opportunity DC and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.³

§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.

Who paid for its polls

§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 Concord pages read do not say whether it works for candidates or parties; the client named on most of its sponsored poll memos is Education Reform Now Advocacy, which describes itself as a nonprofit 501(c)(4) that advocates for education policy.^2,6

Of its 11 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 11 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor⁵.

§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^7,8: 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.

ABC News closed FiveThirtyEight in March 2025; its data stops at the 2022 elections. 2026 results will be added once states certify them.

§52026 record against the count

Why this matters: How close this pollster's last 2026 polls came to how people voted, measured the way FiveThirtyEight measured earlier elections.

3 polls of 3 races between a Democrat and a Republican, with field periods ending in the 21 days before November 3, 2026, compared with each race's count. Some of those races are still being counted, so these figures use the unofficial count and will change until states certify.

Average miss

D+6.4

Relative to other polls of the same races

D+3.8

Typical size of miss

7.0 pts

Error is the poll's D−R margin minus the count's, as shares of all votes in the race; D+ means it showed Democrats doing better than they did. From fewer than 5 polls, so read it as a few data points, not a pattern.

§6Its polls

§7What we looked for and didn't find

• No founding year, location or legal status was found on its own site. A page on the Education Reform Now Advocacy site, seen only in search results, described Concord as an ERNA project founded in 2020, but it returned HTTP 404 when fetched, so no ownership relationship is recorded.
• No fieldwork vendor is named in its poll memos.
• No standing news partner was found.
• Searches for AAPOR statements, court cases, regulator actions, aggregator exclusion statements and retractions found nothing naming the firm.