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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Also published as Fairleigh Dickinson.

AAPOR Transparency Initiative since May 27, 20152Research draft
Polls since 2024
2
Latest poll ended
October 15, 2025
Record vs. results, relative
D+1.4

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.

The FDU Poll is the survey research center of Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey; its page says it was founded in 2000 as the PublicMind Poll, has published survey research since 2001, and also does research for corporate, nonprofit and government clients.3 Its July and October 2025 releases name Dan Cassino, a professor of government and politics at the university, as executive director of the FDU Poll.4,5

Kind
Academic3
Founded
20003

§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

  • Fairleigh Dickinson University. The FDU Poll is listed among Fairleigh Dickinson University's institutes and centers on the university's website.3

Fieldwork or panel by

  • Braun Research (2025–now). Its July and October 2025 New Jersey releases say Braun Research of Princeton, New Jersey drew the voter list and carried out the interviews.4,5

Led by

  • Dan Cassino. Its 2025 releases name Dan Cassino as executive director of the FDU Poll.4,5

§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. The FDU Poll page says it does research for corporate, nonprofit and government clients but does not say whether it works for candidates or parties, and its 2025 releases name no funder.3,4,5

Of its 2 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor6.

§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 data7,8: 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.

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
Fairleigh Dickinson University212001–2021R+0.3D+1.44.3 pts2.6 of 3

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 fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
October 9–October 15, 2025Governor · 2025 New JerseyMikie Sherrill 52 · Jack Ciattarelli 45814 LV
July 17–July 23, 2025Governor · 2025 New JerseyMikie Sherrill 45 · Jack Ciattarelli 37806 LV

§6What we looked for and didn't find

  • No standing news partner was found; its page says major outlets have reported its findings but names no formal partner.
  • No funding source is named on the pages read.
  • No start date for its use of Braun Research was found beyond the 2025 releases read.
  • Searches found no AAPOR statement, court ruling or filing, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction by the FDU Poll.