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Possibility Lab

Research draft
Polls since 2024
1
Latest poll ended
August 12, 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.

UC Berkeley's Possibility Lab describes itself as a team of researchers and practitioners that works with state and local governments on new models of community participation in public policy.1 According to Berkeley News, it launched in 2022, is affiliated with the Goldman School of Public Policy and the Department of Political Science, and is led by executive director Amy E. Lerman.2,3 The Citrin Center says the August 2025 California Issues Survey was fielded by TrueDot with POLITICO, the Citrin Center and the Possibility Lab, with support from the California Constitution Center; the lab has also published its own September 2026 survey of California adults.4,5,6

Kind
Academic1,2
Founded
20222

§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

  • University of California, Berkeley. Its website calls it UC Berkeley's Possibility Lab, and Berkeley News says it is affiliated with the Goldman School of Public Policy and the Department of Political Science.1,2

Fieldwork or panel by

  • TrueDot (2025–now). The Citrin Center says the July and August 2025 California Issues Survey was fielded by TrueDot.4
  • Verasight (2025–now). The Citrin Center says Verasight drew the sample of 1,445 registered voters for that 2025 survey.4

Led by

  • Amy E. Lerman. Its team page lists Amy E. Lerman as executive director.3

Published with

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

Who paid for its polls

Sponsors named on its polls, most polls first7. A party-aligned flag is VoteHub's, per poll.
SponsorPollsBetweenFlagged party-aligned
California Constitution Center1August 12, 2025No

§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 website and Berkeley News describe it as a university research lab on civic engagement, and Berkeley News says it rarely advocates specific policy reforms; neither says whether it works for candidates or parties.1,2

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 sponsor7.

§4Its polls

The 1 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
July 28–August 12, 2025proposition 50 · 2025 CaliforniaNo 64 · Yes 36University of California Berkeley Jack Citrin Center for Public Opinion ResearchPOLITICO, California Constitution Center1,435 RV

§5What we looked for and didn't find

  • No standing news partner was found; the Citrin Center's earlier April 2025 survey with POLITICO does not name the lab, so the August 2025 survey is the only one found with POLITICO.
  • Funding sources were not found beyond the California Constitution Center's support for the 2025 survey.
  • The POLITICO-hosted results file in our records could not be fetched, so the method rests on the Citrin Center page.
  • No fieldwork vendor was named for its September 2026 survey of California adults.
  • Searches found no AAPOR statement, court ruling, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or correction or retraction.