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Overton Insights

AAPOR Transparency Initiative since October 7, 20261Research draft
Polls since 2024
7
Latest poll ended
May 20, 2026

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§1About

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

Overton Insights describes itself on its website as a nonpartisan public opinion research firm that tracks shifts in public attitudes and publishes toplines, crosstabs, question wording and methodology for its polls.2 Its website says it was established in April 2025 as a project of Libertas Network, and a Libertas Network announcement dated April 3, 2025 introduced it as a public polling company within the network whose polling would be done in-house.2,3 The methodology note in its May 2026 poll report says the survey was sponsored and conducted by Overton Insights employees, using text-message invitations to a voter-file sample of registered voters supplied by L2.4

Kind
Nonprofit2,5
Founded
2025-042,3

§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.

Part of

  • Libertas Network (2025–now). The Overton Insights website calls it a project of Libertas Network, which describes itself as a 501(c)(3) parent organization headquartered in Utah whose entities include the Libertas Institute think tank.2,3,5,6

Led by

  • Mark Cunningham. The Overton Insights about page names Mark Cunningham as director of polling.2

Published with

Names its polls have been published under, alongside other pollsters or news outlets.

§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.

Says it does no work for parties or candidates. Its website and its launch announcement call it nonpartisan, and its about page says its polls are written and fielded to measure opinion accurately rather than to favor a candidate, party or cause or other entities within Libertas Network. This rests on its own description; the pages read do not say whether it takes candidate or party clients.2,3,7

Of its 7 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor8.

§4Its polls

The 7 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
May 16–May 20, 2026Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 58 · Approve 321,377 RV
May 16–May 20, 2026Presidential primary · 2028 DemocraticPete Buttigieg 16 · Gavin Newsom 13 · Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 12 · Kamala Harris 9 · Bernie Sanders 9 · Josh Shapiro 8 · 6 more— LV
May 16–May 20, 2026Presidential primary · 2028 RepublicanJD Vance 39 · Marco Rubio 32 · Ron DeSantis 9 · Josh Hawley 4 · Nikki Haley 4 · Tom Cotton 2 · 6 more— LV
October 27–October 29, 2025Presidential primary · 2028 DemocraticKamala Harris 35 · Gavin Newsom 23 · Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 7 · Pete Buttigieg 7 · Cory Booker 5 · Josh Shapiro 5 · 4 moreTargoz Market Research396 RV
October 27–October 29, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 55 · Approve 43Targoz Market Research1,200 RV
October 27–October 29, 2025Presidential primary · 2028 RepublicanJD Vance 34 · Donald Trump Jr. 22 · Ron DeSantis 12 · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 8 · Marco Rubio 7 · Vivek Ramaswamy 5 · 1 moreTargoz Market Research444 RV
October 27–October 29, 2025Favorability · JD VanceUnfavorable 49 · Favorable 40Targoz Market Research1,200 RV

§5What we looked for and didn't find

  • No office location for Overton Insights itself was found; Libertas Network gives Utah as its headquarters state, and no Libertas Network leaders were named on the pages read.
  • Our data show joint Overton Insights/Targoz Market Research bylines in 2025, but no Overton Insights or Libertas Network page read mentions Targoz, and its May 2026 methodology note says its own employees conducted that poll, so no fieldwork relationship is recorded.
  • The Texas Public Policy Foundation published one joint statewide survey of likely Texas voters with it, fielded August 24-26, 2026; a single poll is not recorded as a standing relationship.
  • No news outlet partner or standing client was found; its custom polling page names no clients.
  • Searches found no AAPOR statement, court ruling or filing, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction by the firm; an AAPOR statement of August 19, 2026 on fabricated polling data names no firm.