Pollster

Data Targeting

Research draft

Polls since 2024: 1
Latest poll ended: December 8, 2025

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.

Data Targeting, Inc. says little about itself on its website, which gives a Gainesville, Florida address and links to a polling and voting opt-in page.¹ According to NBC 6 South Florida in 2021, the firm is owned by Pat Bainter, whom it described as a Republican political operative based in Gainesville; WUFT described it in 2013 as a Republican political consulting firm in northwest Gainesville that provided demographic calculations for Florida's 2012 redistricting.^2,3

§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.

Owned by

Pat Bainter. According to NBC 6 South Florida, Pat Bainter owned Data Targeting, Inc. in 2021.²

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
T Roosevelt Action	1	December 8, 2025	No

§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, by its federal filings. From 2023 through 2026, 6 federal committees reporting Republican affiliation paid it, and none reporting Democratic^5,6,7,8. Its website does not describe its clients or say whether it works for candidates or parties. NBC 6 South Florida reported payments to the firm from a Republican state senate campaign committee, but that rests on a news report, not on clients the firm names.^1,2

Florida Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee. According to NBC 6 South Florida, the firm made more than $6.9 million working for the Florida Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee in the 2020 election cycle.²

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 sponsor⁴.

Federal campaigns and committees that paid it

From 2023 through 2026, 6 federal committees reported paying Data Targeting $91,175 for polling, surveys or research^5,6,7,8. By the party each committee reports to the FEC: 0 Democratic, 6 Republican, and 0 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: DATA TARGETING, INC; DATA TARGETING, INC..
Committee	Kind	Party it reports	Paid for polling	Between
FRIENDS OF BILL POSEY	House campaign	Republican	$31,000	March 21, 2024 – April 11, 2024
CAREY BAKER FOR CONGRESS	House campaign	Republican	$20,525	June 29, 2026 – July 23, 2026
DAN GREEN FOR CONGRESS	House campaign	Republican	$20,400	June 15, 2026 – June 29, 2026
DANIEL WEBSTER FOR CONGRESS	House campaign	Republican	$7,000	August 22, 2024
VERN BUCHANAN FOR CONGRESS	House campaign	Republican	$6,250	January 24, 2024
JIM SCHWARTZEL FOR CONGRESS	House campaign	Republican	$6,000	June 10, 2025

§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^9,10: 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
Data Targeting	1	2020	R+4.0	Even	4.0 pts	1.4 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 1 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the field	Question	Result	With	Paid for by	Sample
December 3–December 8, 2025	Governor · 2026 Ohio	Vivek Ramaswamy 45 · Amy Acton 43		T Roosevelt Action	603 LV

§6What we looked for and didn't find

Its website has no about, team or clients page, so its kind, founding year and leaders are not stated by the firm; a repost of a 2019 Gainesville Sun article says Bainter founded it in 1987 and is listed under pointers.
No standing news partner was found.
No fieldwork or panel vendor was found.
The December 2025 T. Roosevelt Action release given as the sample release says the poll was conducted on that group's behalf but does not name the firm that conducted it, so the link to Data Targeting was not confirmed.
A 2013 Leon County contempt order and a 2014 Florida Supreme Court order releasing the firm's redistricting documents concern records in a case the firm was not a party to, not its polls, so they are listed under pointers rather than findings; the trial court's redistricting ruling was not read.
NBC 6 reported that the firm and Bainter provided records to prosecutors in a 2021 Florida criminal case and that Bainter had not been charged; no ruling naming the firm was found.
Searches found no AAPOR statement, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction.